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Cabot Wright Begins (A Bantam Book)
Amazon.com — Brilliant, Caustic Satire of Corporate America James Purdy, the Ohio-born novelist, short story writer, poet and playwright, has written many powerful, strange, disturbing, funny and unforgettable works, and "Cabot Wright Begins" is one of his ...More…
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63: Dream Palace, Selected Stories, 1956-1987
Amazon.com — Author James Purdy Dewey Decimal Number 813.54 EAN 9780876858448 ISBN 0876858442 Number Of Pages 352 Publication Date 1991-09More…
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Color of Darkness: Eleven Stories and a Novella
Amazon.com — Writing under the skin. This book is how I discovered James Purdy and it left me wanting for more (in a good way). This is not at all a comfortable book. Mr. Purdy writes about everyday feelings, occurences and thoughts, but they are the ones no one else ...More…
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Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue: A Novel
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review In 1956, James Purdy published Don't Call Me By My Right Name and Other Stories, and in the years since, he has produced some of the most remarkable stories, novels, and plays in the English language. Praised by artists as diverse as ...More…
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On Glory's Course (Contemporary American Fiction)
Amazon.com — Author James Purdy Dewey Decimal Number 813.54 EAN 9780140076295 ISBN 0140076298 Number Of Pages 378 Publication Date 1985-02-05More…
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Jeremy's Version
Amazon.com — Author James Purdy Dewey Decimal Number 813 EAN 9780786716708 ISBN 0786716703 Number Of Pages 320 Publication Date 2005-12-19More…
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Narrow Rooms
Amazon.com — gay american "wuthering heights" a beautifully written story of love and hate going to the extremes which resembles "wuthering heights" in more than one respect; semi-articulate passion in a deserted land bordering on madness and ...More…
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Out With the Stars: A Novel
Amazon.com — a proto-gothic great One of the great New York novels. If you're an admirer of any sort of baroque sensibility, then this is a must-read. Deeply cultured, deeply weird, and deeply original, James Purdy gives us a tour de force of compression, (not a ...More…
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The House of the Solitary Maggot
Amazon.com — Glorious! This book heads us back in time to the early years of the American 20th Century, a small town dominated by the character of Nora Bythethwaite (surely some tribute, if tribute is the right word, to Dame Edith Sitwell who first promoted James ...More…
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Eustace Chisholm and the Works
Amazon.com — James Purdy at his best I find it hard to believe that James Purdy is so neglected when he is so good. If you're a fan of Flannery O'Conner, I urge you to read Purdy - you will not be disappointed. "Eustace Chisholm" is a stunning ...More…
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Moe's Villa and Other Stories
Amazon.com — "A Masterful Collection of Short Fiction" James Purdy is a gifted storyteller who specializes in giving voice to the lost, depraved and grief-stricken characters that inhabit his particular world. Through the prism of his vision Purdy refracts ...More…
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Out With the Stars
Amazon.com — a proto-gothic great One of the great New York novels. If you're an admirer of any sort of baroque sensibility, then this is a must-read. Deeply cultured, deeply weird, and deeply original, James Purdy gives us a tour de force of compression, (not a ...More…