The Nephew

Name: The Nephew
Author: James Purdy

by James Purdy

Novel about elderly people and their caretakers in a provincial American town

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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.

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