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Jan 1, 1923 — Jan 1, 2009· 86 yrs

UNITED STATES AUTHOR · FICTION · GENERAL

James Purdy - undifferentiated

Also known as: James Purdy, James Otis Purdy

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American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and playwright

Fremont, United States
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Vance De Lakes waited an interminable while in Dr. Ulric's office.

— from Narrow rooms, 1978

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Narrow rooms

1978

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Gore Vidal's recent feature profile of James Purdy in the Sunday New York Times Book Review signaled the long overdue arrival of a major literary cult hero into the American canon. Purdy's exquisitely surreal fiction has been populated for more than 40 years by social outcasts living in crisis and longing for love. However, Purdy was also among the first novelists to incorporate transgressive renderings of gay life into his work, including unapologetic, sexually explicit material. Narrow Rooms—his 1978 classic that ranks among his most masterful novels—is a passionate and sometimes bloody love story about adolescent obsession and revenge.

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The Other Persuasion

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Contains: Before dark (1893) / by Marcel Proust ; translated by Richard Howard -- Mabel Neathe (1903) / by Gertrude Stein -- Prologue to Women in love (1921) / by D.H. Lawrence -- Miss Ogilvy finds herself (1926) / by Radclyffe Hall -- Arthur Snatchfold (1928) / by E.M. Forster -- Divorce in Naples (1931) / by William Faulkner -- Just boys (1931-1934) / by James T. Farrell -- The knife of the times (1932) / by William Carlos Williams -- The sea change / by Ernest Hemingway -- Momma (1947) / by John Horne Burns -- Pages from Cold Point (1950) / by Paul Bowles -- Letters and life (1952) / by Christopher Isherwood -- My brother writes poetry for an Englishman (1953) / by Marris Murray -- Two on a party (1954) / by Tennessee Williams -- You may safely gaze (1956) / by James Purdy -- Pages from an abandoned journal (1956) / by Gore Vidal -- Johnnie (1958) / by Joan O'Donovan -- The threesome (1961) / by Helen Essary Ansell -- A step towards Gomorrah (1961) / by Ingeborg Bachmann ; translated by Michael Bullock -- Jurge Dulrumple (1962) / by John O'Hara -- The wreck (1962) / by Maude Hutchins -- The beautiful room is empty (1966) / by Edmund White -- Chagrin in three parts (1967) / by Graham Greene -- Miss A. and Miss M. (1972) / by Elizabeth Taylor -- Burning th bed (1973) / by Doris Betts -- Middle children (1975) / by Jane Rule.

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In the hollow of His hand

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