ISBN: 0-88739-364-0
296 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 9/2001
Paperback Original
Price: $15.95
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Brothers
Dixon Long
Henry Cornwall is a rebellious, intuitive lover of art who makes his life half a world away from his Japanese wife and son. His brother Sebastian is a disciplined, cerebral Wall Street deal-maker who finds himself in love with a headstrong young French woman. In this expansive, skillfully crafted novel, their stories tangle and twist across continents and time-from Kyoto in 1964, to Paris, Provence and New York in the eighties-and from the international art scene, to the world of high finance.
Brothers is an exploration of the persistent power of family to both confine and liberate the human spirit, the story of linked histories, inner conflicts and adult sibling rivalries, enriched by Long's elegant prose and by his sensitive, insightful rendering of its Japanese, French, and American settings.
Review: "In the tradition of Edith Wharton and Louis Auchincloss, Dixon Long shows us the complexities of feeling among individuals of a certain class often thought to lack complex feelings. Long's characters observe the niceties of manners in three cultures-Japanese, American and French-and the suppressions-and liberations-brought on by wealth and power. Brothers is an éducation sentimentale examined with arresting, postmodern power; it is a first novel by a writer with both delicate and determined prose.
-Howard Junker, Editor, Zyzzyva
"All good fiction has the ability to transport the reader to another world and make us dream of other lives and other places. Dixon Long's Brothers is totally absorbing, it works a kind of magic on the reader and profoundly moves the reader as only the best of the best can do."
-James N. Frey, author of How to Write a Damn Good Novel, and Winter of Wolves
Bio: DIXON LONG was born in Ohio, taught English in Kyoto, and worked in Tokyo and Paris for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Following a career as a professor of politics and dean at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, he moved to California.
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