First Love and Other Sorrows is a collection of short stories by Harold Brodkey, first published in 1958. Ten of its eleven stories were originally printed in The New Yorker and "Trio for Three Gentle Voices" in Mademoiselle. The compilation was the first book Brodkey published, and is often considered his best.
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