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Roman, spelend in Chicago in de dertiger jaren, over een groep werklozen, die beheerst wordt door uiteenlopende seksuele relaties.
Author : James Purdy
Publisher : Alyson Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,49 MB
Release : 1984-04-01
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : 9780907040354
Roman, spelend in Chicago in de dertiger jaren, over een groep werklozen, die beheerst wordt door uiteenlopende seksuele relaties.
Author : James Purdy
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 19,70 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN :
Depiction of the strange world of a small group of Americans in Chicago during the depression.
Author : James Purdy
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0871409526
"[S]o good that almost any novel you read immediately after it will seem at least a little bit posturing." —Jonathan Franzen No 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 frank depiction of abortion, homosexuality, and life on the margins of American society. A cast of characters displaced by economic distress congeal around the embittered poet Eustace Chisholm, who acts as a something of a Greek chorus for the doomed and destructive relationship that is instigated when landlord Daniel Haws falls in love with young college student Amos Ratcliffe. Building to a shocking conclusion, Eustace Chisholm and the Works is a dark and gothic look at the strange and terrible power of love amid a "psychic American landscape of deluded innocence, sexual obsession, violence, and isolation" (William Grimes, New York Times).
Author : James Purdy
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 14,45 MB
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0871409542
"[S]o good that almost any novel you read immediately after it will seem at least a little bit posturing." —Jonathan Franzen No 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 frank depiction of abortion, homosexuality, and life on the margins of American society. A cast of characters displaced by economic distress congeal around the embittered poet Eustace Chisholm, who acts as a something of a Greek chorus for the doomed and destructive relationship that is instigated when landlord Daniel Haws falls in love with young college student Amos Ratcliffe. Building to a shocking conclusion, Eustace Chisholm and the Works is a dark and gothic look at the strange and terrible power of love amid a "psychic American landscape of deluded innocence, sexual obsession, violence, and isolation" (William Grimes, New York Times).
Author : Jonathan Franzen
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 18,49 MB
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0374708762
Jonathan Franzen's Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it "a masterpiece of American fiction" and lauded its illumination, "through the steady radiance of its author's profound moral intelligence, [of] the world we thought we knew." In Farther Away, which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him. Whether recounting his violent encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus, examining his mixed feelings about the suicide of his friend and rival David Foster Wallace, or offering a moving and witty take on the ways that technology has changed how people express their love, these pieces deliver on Franzen's implicit promise to conceal nothing. On a trip to China to see first-hand the environmental devastation there, he doesn't omit mention of his excitement and awe at the pace of China's economic development; the trip becomes a journey out of his own prejudice and moral condemnation. Taken together, these essays trace the progress of unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature, and with some of the most important issues of our day. Farther Away is remarkable, provocative, and necessary.
Author : James Purdy
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 26,21 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786716692
A classic work of surreal fiction, originally published in 1978, is a passionate and violent love story about adolescent obsession and revenge. By the author of The House of the Solitary Maggot. Original.
Author : James Purdy
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 12,1 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822207191
THE STORY: In the words of Stanley Kauffmann, the play, ...which is a fantasy of the corruption of innocence, concerns a fourteen- or fifteen-year-old boy, well-dressed and well-spoken, who--when we meet him--has been sitting daily on a bench in front
Author : James Purdy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 15,53 MB
Release : 2009
Category : American drama
ISBN : 1566637988
"James Purdy's Selected plays will break your damaged little heart."--John Winter."James Purdy's plays have much of the exciting existentiality that infuses his novels and seem content to take drama to interesting places it does not always want to go." -- Edward Albee."James Purdy is an authentic American genius." --Gore Vidal.
Author : James Purdy
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 28,97 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786714179
The author's first short story collection in ten years introduces twelve new stories, including one about an opera diva whose career is managed by her talking cat and another chronicling the bizarre journey of a man whose obsession with his unfaithful wife leads him into an even stranger obsession over a rare bird. Original.
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Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 27,1 MB
Release : 1968
Category :
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