James Purdy
James Purdy was a unique and darkly visionary American writer who created grotesque, tender, and disturbing fiction about American loneliness and failed love. His work was championed in Britain and by Gore Vidal before gaining wider recognition.
Works
- MalcolmNovel about a sheltered young man's sexual and spiritual initiation in urban America
- The NephewNovel about elderly people and their caretakers in a provincial American town
- Cabot Wright BeginsNovel chronicling a man's life through rape confessions and media sensationalism
- Eustace Chisholm and the WorksNovel depicting interconnected lives of marginal outsiders in a Midwestern boarding house
- Jeremy's Version