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James Purdy (1914–2009)

Auteur de Malcolm

93+ oeuvres 2,418 utilisateurs 30 critiques 11 Favoris

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James Purdy was born in Ohio in 1923. After serving in the Army, he attended the University of Puebla in Mexico before receiving an M.A. in Romance languages at the University of Chicago and spending some time at the University of Madrid. He taught at Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin from afficher plus 1949 to 1953. During his lifetime he wrote about 20 novels as well as numerous short stories and plays. Some of his best-known works include the following: Color of Darkness (1957), Malcolm (1959), The Nephew (1960), Cabot Wright Begins (1964), I Am Elijah Thrush (1972), In a Shallow Grave (1976), and Narrow Rooms (1977). He also wrote the Sleepers in Moon-Crowned Valleys trilogy, which comprised of Jeremy's Version (1970), The House of the Solitary Maggot (1974), and Mourners Below (1981). He died on March 13, 2009 at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-103693 DLC

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Œuvres de James Purdy

Malcolm (1959) 287 exemplaires
Eustace Chisholm and the Works (1967) 255 exemplaires
Je suis vivant dans ma tombe (1975) 197 exemplaires
Chambres étroites (1978) 179 exemplaires
Le Neveu (1960) 154 exemplaires
Cabot Wright Begins (1964) 126 exemplaires
La tunique de Nessus (1989) 96 exemplaires
L'oiseau de paradis (1972) 93 exemplaires
63: dream palace and other stories (1957) 83 exemplaires
Jeremy's Version (1970) 75 exemplaires
Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue (1996) 72 exemplaires
The House of the Solitary Maggot (1974) 61 exemplaires
Mourners Below (1981) 60 exemplaires
The Candles of Your Eyes (1987) 58 exemplaires
Out With the Stars (1992) 56 exemplaires
On Glory's Course (1984) 55 exemplaires
In the Hollow of His Hand (1985) 43 exemplaires
Children Is All (1971) 39 exemplaires
The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories, Volume Three (2018) — Contributeur — 29 exemplaires
Moe's Villa and Other Stories (2004) 28 exemplaires
Malcolm (1966) 23 exemplaires
Color of darkness ; Malcolm (1974) 19 exemplaires
Dream palaces : three novels (1980) 18 exemplaires
James Purdy: Selected Plays (2009) 13 exemplaires
Proud flesh : four short plays (1980) 7 exemplaires
Two Plays (1979) 7 exemplaires
Der Gesang des Blutes (1995) 4 exemplaires
Evergreen Review Vol. 1 No. 1 (1957) 4 exemplaires
Sleep Tight (1979) 3 exemplaires
Enge Räume (1989) 3 exemplaires
An Oyster Is a Wealthy Beast (1967) 3 exemplaires
Non chiamarmi col mio nome (2018) 2 exemplaires
Lessons and Complaints (1978) 2 exemplaires
The Running Sun (1971) 2 exemplaires
Kitty Blue (1993) 2 exemplaires
Heatstroke 2 exemplaires
Mr. Evening: A Story & Nine Poems (1968) 2 exemplaires
Cambres estretes (1988) 2 exemplaires
Eustace Chisholm 1 exemplaire
The Blue House (SC) 1 exemplaire
Il nipote The Nephew (1963) 1 exemplaire
Reaching Rose 1 exemplaire
The Berry-Picker 1 exemplaire
Sunshine Is An Only Child (1973) 1 exemplaire
SATYRE (LE) (1970) 1 exemplaire
Mister Evening : noveller (1992) 1 exemplaire
Dawn {short story} 1 exemplaire
Les oevres d´Eustace 1 exemplaire
The lesson 1 exemplaire
Malcoll 1 exemplaire
Dream Palace 1 exemplaire
About Jessie May 1 exemplaire
Couleur de ténèbres 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

The Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction (1992) — Contributeur — 319 exemplaires
The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories (1994) — Contributeur — 317 exemplaires
Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology (1993) — Contributeur — 285 exemplaires
Men on Men 2: Best New Gay Fiction (1988) — Contributeur — 203 exemplaires
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Contributeur — 174 exemplaires
The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature (1998) — Contributeur — 158 exemplaires
Men on Men 6: Best New Gay Fiction (1996) — Contributeur — 124 exemplaires
The Other persuasion: short fiction about gay men and women (1977) — Contributeur — 121 exemplaires
First Love/Last Love (1985) — Contributeur — 84 exemplaires
On the Line: New Gay Fiction (1981) — Contributeur — 82 exemplaires
Granta 1: New American Writing (1979) — Contributeur — 44 exemplaires
Mothers and Daughters: An Anthology (1998) — Contributeur — 33 exemplaires
Korter dan kort de beste kortste verhalen uit de wereldliteratuur (1993) — Contributeur — 28 exemplaires
Studies in Fiction (1965) — Contributeur — 22 exemplaires
Wonders: Writings and Drawings for the Child in Us All (1980) — Contributeur — 18 exemplaires
Family : stories from the interior (1987) — Contributeur — 15 exemplaires
Twenty-Nine Stories (1960) — Contributeur — 13 exemplaires
New World Writing 17 (1960) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
Moderne Amerikaanse verhalen — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
New Directions in Prose and Poetry 35 (1977) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Juvenile Delinquency in Literature (1980) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
32 Współczesne Opowiadania Amerykańskie - Tom II — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire

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From the pen of Edward Albee comes an adaptation of one of my favorite novels by James Purdy. Albee captures the atmosphere and the characters in this less-well-known play. I always enjoy reading the work of both of these authors.
 
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jwhenderson | Jun 13, 2023 |
Malcolm is a young man who appears on a bench outside a hotel where he’s staying in New York City. Professor Cox, the leading astrologer of his time, seems to feel this state of affairs is wrong. A teenager with no apparent history, no goals, no friends – who claims to be waiting for his father – shouldn’t be spending his days on a bench. Professor Cox provides Malcolm with “addresses” of people in the city to get him off the bench.

Malcolm meets with the various eccentric acquaintances of the Professor, all of whom are smitten with the young man and want to keep him for themselves. His beauty, innocence and lack of guile endear him to almost everyone. He becomes involved in their silly doings – and is sometimes the cause. Eventually things turn dark for Malcolm and his innocence is incrementally lost. This is a humorous and sad book, touching and filled with absurdity.… (plus d'informations)
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Hagelstein | 5 autres critiques | Mar 7, 2023 |
This is an idiosyncratic and flamboyant tale of pre-Stonewall bohemian New York City. I delighted in the diverse characters that could only have come from the pen of the author of Malcolm and Eustace Chisholm.
 
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jwhenderson | Oct 4, 2022 |
Stories of the absurd in the sense that all human life and relationships contain a bit, or more, of the absurd. These are dark stories that often surprise the reader with misdirection and a sort of misanthropy.
 
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jwhenderson | Feb 22, 2022 |

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Œuvres
93
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Membres
2,418
Popularité
#10,602
Évaluation
½ 3.7
Critiques
30
ISBN
159
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