Download or read book Malcolm written by James Purdy and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1966 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: In the words of Stanley Kauffmann, the play, ...which is a fantasy of the corruption of innocence, concerns a fourteen- or fifteen-year-old boy, well-dressed and well-spoken, who--when we meet him--has been sitting daily on a bench in front

Download or read book Narrow Rooms written by James Purdy and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Color of darkness written by James Purdy and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Malcolm A Comic Novel written by James Purdy and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Download or read book In a Shallow Grave written by James Purdy and published by City Lights Publishers. This book was released on 1988-11-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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...

Download or read book Don t Call Me by My Right Name written by James Purdy and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Eustace Chisholm and the Works written by James Purdy and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depiction of the strange world of a small group of Americans in Chicago during the depression.

Download or read book I Am Elijah Thrush written by James Purdy and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The House of the Solitary Maggot written by James Purdy and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Mourners Below written by James Purdy and published by Viking Press. This book was released on 1982-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seventeen-year-old innocent, haunted by the ghosts of his two older brothers, encounters an amoral woman who plans to seduce him as she once seduced his brothers

Download or read book The Candles of Your Eyes written by James Purdy and published by City Lights Publishers. This book was released on 1991-05-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "James Purdy is a marvel. His new collection of stories confirms the wacky elegance that has been Purdy's stock in the writing trade during a distinguished career that goes back to the middle '50s.... Splendid." – Chicago Tribune

Download or read book Bald Ego written by Max Blagg and published by Bald Ego Publishing. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Either the world's most visual literary magazine or the world's most literary visual magazine, "Bald Ego" continues its pursuit of syncretic splendor with a lustrous lineup for issue three. Jack Spade transformed the cover into a readymade. Inside, Elias Khoury, Philip Taaffe, John Lurie, Gary Indiana, Sam Matamoros, Mcdermott & McGough, Sante d'Orazio, Tom Sachs, Keith Sonnier, Elizabeth Peyton, Jack Pierson, Richard Prince, Fred Tomaselli, James Salter and many more. It's the definitive arts and literature magazine for the (undefined).

Download or read book 63 Dream Palace written by James Purdy and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book On Glory s Course written by James Purdy and published by New York : Viking Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue written by James Purdy and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1997 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story of a woman's struggle to come to terms with a life seemingly emptied of meaning by her estranged daughter's death explores such themes as the mysterious connection between creativity and self destruction and the paradox of loss that leads ultimately to renewed life and love.

Download or read book Nothing But the Truth written by John Purdy and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2001 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN ANTHOLOGY THAT features both classic and contemporary Native American Literatures, Nothing But The Truth is a healthy collection of the best works of Native American Literature. The pieces of literature selected for this anthology are core texts used in classrooms and are conductive to discussion in the classroom. Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Drama are included as well as some theoretical discussion and introductions by various scholars and teachers of the literature.

Download or read book The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy written by James Purdy and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate “an authentic American genius” (Gore Vidal) in James Purdy’s first complete short story collection. The publication of The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy is a literary event that marks the first time all of James Purdy’s short stories—fifty-six in number, including seven drawn from his unpublished archives—have been collected in a single volume. As prolific as he was unclassifiable, James Purdy was considered one of the greatest—and most underappreciated—writers in America in the latter half of the twentieth century. Championed by writers as diverse as Dame Edith Sitwell, Gore Vidal, Paul Bowles, Tennessee Williams, Carl Van Vechten, John Cowper Powys, and Dorothy Parker, Purdy’s vast body of work has heretofore been relegated to the avant-garde fringes of the American literary mainstream. His unique form and variety of style made the Ohio-born Purdy impossible to categorize in standard terms, though his unique, mercurial talent garnered him a following of loyal readers and made him—in the words of Susan Sontag—“one of the half dozen or so living American writers worth taking seriously." Purdy’s journey to recognition came with as much outrage and condemnation as it did lavish praise and lasting admiration. Some early assessments even dismissed his work as that of a disturbed mind, while others acclaimed the very same work as healing and transformative. Purdy's fiction was considered so uniquely unsettling that his first book, Don't Call Me by My Right Name, a collection of short stories all reprinted in this edition, had to be printed privately in the United States in 1956, after first being published in England. Best known for his novels Malcolm, Cabot Wright Begins, Jeremy's Version, and Eustace Chisholm and the Works, Purdy captured an America that was at once highly realistic and deeply symbolic, a landscape filled with social outcasts living in crisis and longing for love, characterized by his dark sense of humor and unflinching eye. Love, disillusionment, the collapse of the family, ecstatic longing, sharp inner pain, and shocking eruptions of violence pervade the lives of his characters in stories that anticipate both "David Lynch and Desperate Housewives" (Guardian). In "Color of Darkness," for example, a lonely child attempts to swallow his father's wedding ring; in "Eventide," the anguish of two sisters over the loss of their sons is deeply felt in the summer heat; and in the gothic horror of "Mr. Evening," a young man is hypnotized and imprisoned by a predatory old woman. These stories and many others, both haunting and hilarious, form a canvas of deep desperation and immanent sympathy, as Purdy narrates "the inexorable progress toward disaster in such a way that it's as satisfying and somehow life-affirming as progress toward a happy ending" (Jonathan Franzen). It may have taken over fifty years, but American culture is finally in sync with James Purdy. As John Waters writes in his introduction, Purdy, far from the fringe, has "been dead center in the black little hearts of provocateur-hungry readers like myself right from the beginning."