← James PurdyEustace Chisholm and the Worksby James PurdyNovel depicting interconnected lives of marginal outsiders in a Midwestern boarding houseFind on Amazon↗About the authorJames PurdyJames 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.More by James PurdyMalcolmNovel 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→Jeremy's Version→
