So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an accoun… — Harold Brodkey

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.

Harold BrodkeyAuthor · American · 1930 – 1996

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