Talk:The Runaway Soul

The tone of this entry is weirdly hostile and disparaging throughout; its author seems intent on belittling every aspect of the subject, and makes bizarre comments. Of course “no novel was forthcoming” during the period between its sale to its original publisher and its eventual publication. Assertions such as “Many now believe the the novel cycle was, if not an exaggeration, then an outright hoax” seems slightly unhinged. (Shouldn’t that be “if not an outright hoax, then an exaggeration”?)

The truth is that Brodkey worked on this novel for years, before publishing it (in an apparently shorter version than what he first wrote; numerous outtakes of it had appeared in magazines but were not included in the final book) under the title The Runaway Soul. There are several well-documented accounts of editors seeing the manuscript during the long years of its composition, so the insinuations (here, and in the entry on “Harold Brodkey” that the thing never existed seem pretty strange.

This should be entirely rewritten. Is someone willing to do it, or shall I have to? Gregory Feeley (talk) 22:07, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Okay, I rewrote the entry, and a notice popped up saying that it lacked references. I then added some references. How does one make the notice go away? Gregory Feeley (talk) 13:45, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Novel Longest in Progress
In 1981, Robert Hendrickson awarded the "Novel Longest in Progress" prize to A Party of Animals:

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