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Genre/Form: | Short stories |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James Purdy |
ISBN: | 9780871407757 0871407752 |
OCLC Number: | 881705834 |
Description: | 1 volume ; 21 cm |
Contents: | A good woman -- You reach for your hat -- Sound of talking -- Cutting edge -- Don't call me by my right name -- Eventide -- Man and wife -- Plan now to attend -- Why can't they tell you why? -- 63: dream palace -- About Jessie Mae -- You may safely gaze -- Color of darkness -- Night and day -- The lesson -- Mrs. Benson -- Encore -- Everything under the sun -- Daddy wolf -- Goodnight, sweetheart -- Sermon -- Home by dark -- Scrap of paper -- Mr. Evening -- On the rebound -- Lily's party -- Summer tidings -- Some of these days -- Short papa -- Ruthanna Elder -- How I became a shadow -- Sleep tight -- Rapture -- Mud Toe the cannibal -- Dawn -- The candles of your eyes -- In this corner ... -- Kitty Blue -- Bonnie -- Gertrude's hand -- The white blackbird -- Brawith -- Geraldine -- A little variety, please -- Easy Street -- Entre dos luces -- Moe's villa -- No stranger to Luke -- Reaching Rose -- Early stories. A chance to say no -- Dr. Dieck & Company -- That's about enough out of you -- Talk about yesterday -- The pupil -- Final stories. Vera's story -- Adeline. |
Responsibility: | by James Purdy ; introduction by John Waters. |
Abstract:
Collected here for the first time are the complete short stories of "a singular American visionary" (New York Times).
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"What constitutes in extremis for most of us is the daily bread of Mr. Purdy's world." -- Jonathan Franzen "A writer of the highest rank in originality, insight and power." -- Dorothy Parker "...he will surely enchant the reader who values a new expression of new feeling and experience in our very new time." -- Tennessee Williams Read more...

