James Purdy Livres

A career-spanning selection of James Purdy's fiction, including the titular short novel, Purdy's first. Not to be confused with 63 Dream Palace and Other Stories .

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. A dazzling novel by one of America’s most underrated writers.

Celebrate an authentic American genius (Gore Vidal) in James Purdy's first complete short story collection.

In een bizar milieu in New York worden machtsspelletjes en seksuele relaties doorkruist door aids.

Long out of print, James Purdy's novel Malcolm, first published in 1959, established Purdy as "one of the greatest writers produced in America during the past hundred years" (Dame Edith Sitwell). Malcolm is the bizarre story of an innocent young man of 'exceptional beauty' who becomes involved in a series of comic and poignant adventures. Taken under the wing of a famous astrologer, an undertaker, a billionaire, a midget painter, a jazz queen, America's foremost chanteuse, and a tattoo artist, among others, Malcolm is led endlessly from protector to protector in search of his missing father, until the journey itself becomes his undoing.

Dopo aver scontato una pena detentiva, il venditore di auto insignificante Bernie incontra Carrie, una donna che lo spinge ad andare a New York per trovare il serial killer Cabot Wright, appena rilasciato dalla prigione. Cabot, dice lei, gli fornirà materiale prezioso per scrivere la Grande Novela Americana. Da quel momento, Bernie si ritrova coinvolto in una serie esilarante di vicissitudini e situazioni assurde in compagnia del violatore, di un ambizioso editore e di Zoe Bickle, la moglie del suo vicino, che, trovandosi casualmente a New York, decide per gentilezza di aiutarlo a scrivere la sua rischiosa opera maestra.

Sechs Erzählungen von Purdy zeigen Figuren, die als "Kannibalen der Liebe" agieren. Sie finden keine ausgewogene Beziehung zu ihren Begierden und erleben kurzfristige Ruhe an verschiedenen Orten, sei es in einem Abbruchhaus oder einem Salon. Ihr Streben führt zu flüchtigem Glück, das jedoch nicht von Dauer ist.