Brothers: 26 Stories of Love and Rivalry

BROTHERS: 26 Stories of Love and Rivalry

Beginning with Cain and Abel, the relationship between brothers has been fraught with drama. The first book of its kind - NOW IN PAPERBACK - to explore the unique bonds of brotherhood, BROTHERS: 26 Stories of Love and Rivalry, edited by Andrew Blauner and with a foreword from Frank McCourt, exhibits stories short and long, comic and tragic, nonfiction and fiction, from some of the most renowned writers of our time.

 Brilliant contributions from Ethan Canin, Richard Ford, Pete Hamill, Phillip Lopate, David Maraniss, David Sedaris, Jim Shepard, John Edgar Wideman, Tobias Wolff and others offer riveting accounts of the intimate connections and intense differences between brothers.

David Kaczynski, brother of The Unabomber, writes, “I’ll start with the premise that a brother shows you who you are - and also who you are not. He’s an image of the self, at one remove; but also a representation of the 'other.'....You are a ‘we’ with your brother before you are a ‘we’ with any other."

BROTHERS examines and explores, deep and wide, stories of love, loyalty, and loss, of altruism and anger, of competition and compassion—all to do with the unique nature of what it is to be and to have a brother. Brotherhood is, after all, a crucial psychological relationship that illuminates ourselves, our families, and our place in the world.