Brothers 26 Stories of Love and Rivalry

Here is a tapestry of stories about the complex and unique relationship that exists between brothers. In this book, some of our finest authors take an unvarnished look at how brothers admire and admonish, revere and revile, connect and compete, love and war with each other. With hearts and minds wide open, and, in some cases, with laugh-out-loud humor, the writers tackle a topic that is as old as the Bible and yet has been, heretofore, overlooked. Contributors range in age from twenty-four to eighty-four, and their stories from comic to tragic. Table of Contents:Foreword ("Frank McCourt").Civil War ("Benjamin and Fred Cheever").Missing Parts ("David Kaczynski").The Sensations of Jim ("David Maraniss").My Brother, Life (with Apologies to Pasternak) ("Phillip Lopate").Secrets and Bones ("Mikal Gilmore").We Were Men ("Richard Ford").American Beauty ("Ethan Canin").Doing Time ("John Edgar Wideman").My Brother's a Keeper ("Chris Bohjalian").Headlock ("Daniel Menaker").A Drinking Life ("Pete Hamill").You Can't Kill the Rooster ("David Sedaris").Heavy Lifting ("Geoffrey Wolff").A Brother's Story ("Tobias Wolff").Documents ("Charles D'Ambrosio").Get Away from Me ("Jim Shepard").The Scarlet Ibis ("James Hurst").The Roberts Boys ("Steven V. Roberts").A Death in the Family ("Dominick Dunne").Jambon Dreams ("Floyd Skloot").Imagining Robert ("Jay Neugeboren").King of the Cleveland Beatniks ("Herbert Gold").The Accident ("Gregory Orr").Sacraments of Reconciliation ("Jerald Walker").Chang and Eng ("Darin Strauss").Brothers on Brotherhood ("Nathaniel Rich and Simon Rich").About the Editor and Contributors.Acknowledgments.Sources and Permissions.