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Malcolm is a classic innocent, led from one protective personality to another in the search for his missing father. He becomes involved in a series of poignant and wildly comic adventures as he is taken under the wing of an astrologer, an undertaker, a jazz queen and other eccentric characters.
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The story of a disfigured man home from an unnamed war, trying to get his life to make sense again.
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A literary cult hero of major proportions, James Purdy’s exquisitely surreal fiction—Tennessee Williams meets William S. Burroughs—has been populated for more than forty years by social outcasts living in crisis and longing for love. His acclaimed first novel, Malcolm (1959), won praise from... (learn more about this book)
Narrow Rooms is a passionate and sometimes bloody love story about adolescent obsession and revenge.
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For courses in Native American Literature, Freshman Composition, History of Native Americans, and American Literary Survey. This anthology includes some of the best and class-tested works of Native American Literature--with a good representation of major authors, geographic dispersion, gender... (learn more about this book)
A Novel. A compassionate but unsparing novel of small---town American life. A very nice vintage collector's item. Number # G-1147. Originally 50 cents.
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Gore Vidal's 2005 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 is one of the last surviving, original, post-war pioneers of transgressive fiction—in line with the Beats,... (learn more about this book)
The people of Prince’s Crossing called him the old maggot. Not just because he was despicably rich, nor because he owned all their farms, or sired the wild young men who tore up the roads with their galloping horses—it was because they could not pronounce the word magnate, which Mr. Skegg... (learn more about this book)
messianic novel set in plague-stricken New York
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