Author: James Purdy Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0871406691 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 743
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Collected together for the first time are more than 50 short stories, some previously unpublished, from the author of Malcom and Cabot Wright Begins whose work was initially censored and considered scandalous. 13,000 first printing.
Author: James Purdy Publisher: Da Capo Press ISBN: 9780786716692 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 191
Book Description
A classic work of surreal fiction, originally published in 1978, is a passionate and violent love story about adolescent obsession and revenge. By the author of The House of the Solitary Maggot. Original.
Author: James Purdy Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1566637988 Category : American drama Languages : en Pages : 304
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"James Purdy's Selected plays will break your damaged little heart."--John Winter."James Purdy's plays have much of the exciting existentiality that infuses his novels and seem content to take drama to interesting places it does not always want to go." -- Edward Albee."James Purdy is an authentic American genius." --Gore Vidal.
Author: James Purdy Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0871409607 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 224
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The twenty-first-century revival of James Purdy continues with his classic novel of innocence and corruption. Introduced simply as “the boy on the bench,” the titular character of Malcolm is a Candide-like figure who is picked up by the “most famous astrologer of his period” and introduced to a series of increasingly absurd characters and bizarre situations in “the most prodigiously funny book to streak across these heavy-hanging times” (Dorothy Parker).
Author: James Purdy Publisher: City Lights Publishers ISBN: 9780872862340 Category : Languages : en Pages : 160
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Purdy does not celebrate the wonders of our lives; he digs under the flesh, deals with the howling of our nighttime existence, the rough arithmetic of our dreams. He is also a very funny writer, one who captures the particular idiom of women and men...
Author: James Purdy Publisher: Fordham Univ Press ISBN: 1531501249 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 91
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On its surface, I Am Elijah Thrush is the story of Millicent De Frayne and her sensational half-century campaign to win the love of Elijah Thrush. Elijah, after ruining the lives of countless men and women, is finally in love “incorrectly, if not indecently,” with his great-grandson, Bird of Heaven. To support an unusual habit, a young Black man, Albert Peggs, reluctantly agrees to tell their remarkable story. It is in this telling that the ambitions, desires, and true natures of Elijah, Millicent, and Albert come to light. With a delicately controlled balance of whimsy and pathos, James Purdy gives us this comedy of the heroic, the tragic, and the truly bizarre. Met with critical bewilderment upon its initial publication fifty years ago, this new edition offers a Foreword by Robert J. Corber illuminating Purdy’s “complicated allegory” of objectification, desire, and race in the immediate post–civil rights moment.
Author: James Purdy Publisher: New York : Viking Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 394
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On glory's course is set in Fonthill, a small Midwestern town of the 1930s where Adele Bevington, a faded and fallen beauty who surrounds herself with gentlemen callers at all hours of the night, arrives searching for the illegitimate son she never knew and is drawn into a sinister plot with the local townspeople.
Author: James Purdy Publisher: Da Capo Press ISBN: 9780786715176 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 420
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The common-law wife of an old man called "maggot" gives birth to a boy who becomes obsessed with leaving the house, but when he returns to the family, he must face the reality of brothers he has never met. Original.
Author: James Purdy
Author: James Purdy
Author: James Purdy
Author: James Purdy
Author: James Purdy
Author: James Purdy
Author: James Purdy
Author: James Purdy
Author: James Purdy
Author: James Purdy