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  • In a Shallow Grave

    by James Purdy, Andrew Schenker ...
    Garnet Montrose returns home from Vietnam to small-town Virginia with injuries so terrible that people become ill at the sight of him. Seeking assistance and companionship in his isolation, Garnet hires two young male caretakers, Quintus and Daventry. His interest and curiosity are awakened by the books Quintus reads to him, but in the handsome Daventry he finds a powerful, transformative love ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Narrow Rooms

    by James Purdy ...
    Released from a prison sentence for manslaughter, Sidney De Lakes returns home to West Virginia, where, in order to exorcise the memory of the lover he killed, he must keep his appointment with destiny in the shape of the man known as “the Renderer”. In this story of the powerful, violent passions of four young men in the remote Appalachians, James Purdy has crafted one of his most haunting and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy

    by James Purdy ...
    Collected here for the first time are the complete short stories of “a singular American visionary” (New York Times).The publication of The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy is a literary event that marks the first time all of James Purdy’s short stories—fifty-six in number, including seven drawn from his unpublished archives—have been collected in a single volume. As prolific as he was ... Read more

    $15.69 USD

  • Eustace Chisholm and the Works

    A Novel

    by James Purdy ...
    "[S]o good that almost any novel you read immediately after it will seem at least a little bit posturing." —Jonathan FranzenNo James Purdy novel has dazzled contemporary writers more than this haunting tale of unrequited love in an indifferent world. A seedy depression-era boarding house in Chicago plays host to "a game of emotional chairs" (The Guardian) in a novel initially condemned for its ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Cabot Wright Begins: A Novel

    A Novel

    by James Purdy ...
    Cabot Wright Begins, first published in 1964, may be one of the most neglected masterpieces in post–World War II American literature.Cabot Wright is a handsome, Yale-educated stockbroker and scion of a good family. He also happens to be the convicted rapist of nearly three hundred women. Bernie Gladhart is a naive used-car salesman from Chicago, who—spurred on by his ambitious wife—decides to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • James Purdy: Selected Plays

    by James Purdy ...
    Hailed as "a creative genius" (TLS) and "a singular American visionary" (New York Times ), James Purdy may be best known for his remarkable novels, but he was also an astonishing playwright who wrote nine full-length and twenty short plays. Purdy was one of the few contemporary American writers capable of writing tragedy-Tennessee Williams called him "a uniquely gifted man of the theater." This ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories, Volume 3

    by James Purdy, Charles Beaumont, J. B. Priestley ...
    Since 2005, Valancourt Books has earned a reputation as one of the foremost publishers of lost and rediscovered classics, reissuing more than 400 unjustly neglected works from the past 250 years. In this third volume of horror stories, the editors of Valancourt Books have selected fifteen tales (and one macabre poem) - all by Valancourt authors - for this new collection featuring horror from the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Malcolm

    A Comic Novel

    by James Purdy ...
    The twenty-first-century revival of James Purdy continues with his classic novel of innocence and corruption.Introduced simply as “the boy on the bench,” the titular character of Malcolm is a Candide-like figure who is picked up by the “most famous astrologer of his period” and introduced to a series of increasingly absurd characters and bizarre situations in “the most prodigiously funny book to ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • I Am Elijah Thrush

    by James Purdy ...
    On its surface, I Am Elijah Thrush is the story of Millicent De Frayne and her sensational half-century campaign to win the love of Elijah Thrush. Elijah, after ruining the lives of countless men and women, is finally in love “incorrectly, if not indecently,” with his great-grandson, Bird of Heaven. To support an unusual habit, a young Black man, Albert Peggs, reluctantly agrees to tell their ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Out with the Stars

    by James Purdy ...
    Following the discovery of an anonymous libretto, Abner Blossom comes out of retirement to write an opera based on the life of infamous novelist-turned-photographer Cyril Vane. But those who knew Vane and his Russian-born wife, the silent-screen star Madame Olga Petrovna, are prepared to go to any length to suppress the truth about them. Vane’s dark secret follows him to the grave. But his jealous ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

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  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Man Booker Prize Winner)

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