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9781566637985 | Ivan R Dee, June 1, 2009, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: 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.
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9780810123731 | Northwestern Univ Pr, September 1, 2007, cover price $24.95
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9780786716708 | Reprint edition (Da Capo Pr, December 19, 2005), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The midwestern family of the Ferguses endures pettiness, passions, and disloyalty in the face of Wilfred's irresponsible entrepreneurship, Winifred's domineering behaviors, Elvira's proud tenacity, and the budding adulthoods of Wilfred and Elvira's three sons.
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9780877951834 | Arbor House Pub Co, March 1, 1978, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Sidney De Lakes returns from prison after srving a four-year term for manslaughter and confesses to his younger brother the homosexuality that led him to the crime
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9780786716692 | Da Capo Pr, August 18, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A classic work of surreal fiction, originally published in 1978, is a passionate and violent love story about adolescent obsession and revenge.
9780907040576 | Reprint edition (Heretic Books, December 1, 1985), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Gore Vidal’s recent feature profile of James Purdy in the Sunday New York Times Book Review signaled the long overdue arrival of a major literary cult hero into the American canon.
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9780720606621 | Dufour Editions, January 1, 1986, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: The people of Prince’s Crossing called him the old maggot.
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9780786715176, titled "The House Of The Solitary Maggot" | Da Capo Pr, March 17, 2005, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The common-law wife of an old man called 'maggot' gives birth to a boy who becomes obsessed with leaving the house, but when he returns to the family, he must face the reality of brothers he has never met.
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9780786715022 | Reprint edition (Da Capo Pr, December 20, 2004), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The classic gay novel chronicles life in pre-Stonewall New York City, revealing the passionate relationship between two men that shocked members of the New York literary establishment in the 1960s.
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9780786714179 | Da Capo Pr, September 12, 2004, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: 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.
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9780688172268 | Quill, September 1, 1999, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: A grieving mother struggles to come to terms with the death of her estranged daughter, an artistic, passionate, doomed woman whom she is still striving to understand
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James Purdy’s new novel, Garments the Living Wear, is a vision of evil and dark salvation peopled with bizarre and memorable characters. Satirizing life in New York City in the 1980s, its themes include the scourge of AIDS, criminal conspiracies, the excesses of the superrich, modern evangelism, and love in its many forms.
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9780720607338, titled "Garments the Living Wear" | Peter Owen Ltd, June 5, 1999, cover price $16.95
9780872862395 | City Lights Books, October 1, 1989, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: James Purdy’s new novel, Garments the Living Wear, is a vision of evil and dark salvation peopled with bizarre and memorable characters.
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9780688159016 | William Morrow & Co, September 1, 1998, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A grieving mother struggles to come to terms with the death of her estranged daughter, an artistic, passionate, doomed woman whom she is still striving to understand
9780720610116 | Peter Owen Ltd, December 1, 1996, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: In England his novels are always bestsellers, yet for the last decade this American literary master has not been published in his own country.
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9780720608618 | Peter Owen Ltd, August 5, 1997, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Following the discovery of an anonymous libretto, a composer comes out of retirement to write an opera based on the life of the infamous novelist-turned-photographer Cyril Vane.
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9780670524518 | Viking Pr, February 1, 1984, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Although it took place thirty years in the past, Adele Bevington cannot forget the affair she had with a Chicago businessman nor the infant son she had to give up for adoption
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9780720606331 | Peter Owen Ltd, May 4, 1997, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: On Glory’s Course is set in Fonthill, a small Midwestern town of the 1930s where Adele Bevington, a faded and fallen beauty, arrives searching for the illegitimate son she never knew and is drawn into a sinister plot with the local townspeople.
9780140076295 | Reprint edition (Viking Pr, February 1, 1985), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Although it took place thirty years in the past, Adele Bevington cannot forget the affair she had with a Chicago businessman nor the infant son she had to give up for adoption
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9780720606959 | Peter Owen Ltd, January 8, 1997, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A powerful novel by James Purdy set in the 1920s Midwest.
9781555840020 | Grove Pr, August 1, 1986, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In a small rural town in the 1920's, an Ojibwa Indian claims that the only son of one of the area's leading families is his offspring
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9780936109534 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, November 1, 1995, cover price $15.00
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9781852423681 | Reprint edition (Serpents Tail, January 1, 1995), cover price $12.99 | About this edition: A fifteen-year-old orphan spends his time sitting in front of a hotel until an astrologer introduces him to a bizarre assortment of people
9781555840846 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, September 1, 1987), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A fifteen-year-old orphan spends his time sitting in front of a hotel until an astrologer introduces him to a bizarre assortment of people
9780822207191 | Dramatist''s Play Service, October 1, 1966, cover price $8.00 | About this edition: Malcolm is a classic innocent, led from one protective personality to another in the search for his missing father.
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Product Description: Purdy's newest novel
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9780872862876 | City Lights Books, February 1, 1994, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Purdy's newest novel
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9780872862845 | Reissue edition (City Lights Books, October 1, 1993), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Purdy's newest novel
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9780876858462 | Signed edition (Black Sparrow Pr, September 1, 1991), cover price $35.00
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9780876858448 | Black Sparrow Pr, September 1, 1991, cover price $15.00
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9780872862562 | Reprint edition (City Lights Books, May 1, 1991), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: first paperback edition of Purdy's recent stories
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9780872862340 | City Lights Books, November 1, 1988, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: beautiful, moving novel of a love triangle
9780877956051 | Reissue edition (Arbor House Pub Co, April 1, 1984), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Severly disfigured in the war, Garnet Montrose returns to his fifty-acre farm on the Virginia coast, where he enlists the assistance of hired helpers and of Widow Rance in effecting his rehabilitation
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When Alma, a retired schoolteacher begins writing a memorial to the life of her nephew, Cliff Mason, who's reported missing in action in Korea, she inadvertently stirs up the whole town
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9781555840853 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, September 1, 1987), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: When Alma, a retired schoolteacher begins writing a memorial to the life of her nephew, Cliff Mason, who's reported missing in action in Korea, she inadvertently stirs up the whole town
9780140056709 | Viking Pr, December 1, 1980, cover price $3.95
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9780854490127 | Heretic Books, October 1, 1986, cover price $7.50
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9780881841961 | Carroll & Graf Pub, January 1, 1986, cover price $4.50
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A seventeen-year-old innocent, haunted by the ghosts of his two older brothers, encounters an amoral woman who plans to seduce him as she once seduced his brothers
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9780140061932 | Viking Pr, June 1, 1982, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A seventeen-year-old innocent, haunted by the ghosts of his two older brothers, encounters an amoral woman who plans to seduce him as she once seduced his brothers
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Tells the stories of two brothers who move to a Chicago slum after their mother's death, a woman who can't abide her new, married name, a father and son who are unable to express their feelings, and others
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9780140057324 | Viking Pr, February 1, 1981, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Tells the stories of two brothers who move to a Chicago slum after their mother's death, a woman who can't abide her new, married name, a father and son who are unable to express their feelings, and others
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Three novels provide witty glances at a young man's bizarre adventures, life in a small American town, and the relationship of two brothers and the loss of innocence
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9780670284634 | Viking Pr, June 1, 1980, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Three novels provide witty glances at a young man's bizarre adventures, life in a small American town, and the relationship of two brothers and the loss of innocence
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