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Author: James Purdy
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9780822207191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE 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
Author: James Purdy
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780786716692
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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
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Published: 1954
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Purdy
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2015-04-13
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 0871409607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 100
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDepiction of the strange world of a small group of Americans in Chicago during the depression.
Author: James Purdy
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780786715176
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 788
ISBN-13: 9780195092622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.
Author: James Purdy
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Published: 1988-11-01
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780872862340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPurdy 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: Viking Press
Published: 1982-01
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780140061932
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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
