Top 10 Books About Brothers
In this week's Guardian, James Runcie published his Top 10 Books about Brothers. A film-maker and author in his own right, Runcie once got this advice:
A long time ago, a friend at a publishing house told me to stop "mucking about" and write about family life. 'It's the only real subject. BIG TIP.'
Here is his Top Ten:
1. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
3. The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson
4. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
5. Goodbye My Brother by John Cheever [in The Stories of John Cheever]
6. The Tale of Three Brothersby JK Rowling [in The Tales of Beedle the Bard]
8. Blood Brothers by Willy Russell
9. Pierre et Jean by Guy de Maupassant
10. Monsieur les Deux Chapeaux by Alice Munro [in Progress of Love]
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