The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy
A Classics, Short Stories, Queer book. She sat down about two yards away from him, near a large wandering jew. I...
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event that marks the first time all of James Purdy’s short stories—fifty-six in number, including seven drawn from his unpublished archives—have been collected in a single volume.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 unclassifiable, James Purdy was considered one of the greatest—and most underappreciated—writers in America in the latter half of the twentieth century. Championed by writers as diverse as Dame Edith Sitwell, Gore Vidal, Paul Bowles, Tennessee Williams, Carl Van Vechten, John Cowper Powys, and Dorothy Parker, Purdy’s vast body of work has heretofore been relegated to the avant-garde fringes of the American literary mainstream.His unique form and variety of style made the Ohio-born Purdy impossible to categorize in standard terms, though his unique, mercurial talent...
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Just like children, he and the greatwoman Grainger longed, and especially demanded even, that something should happen, or again Parkhearst would cry, A reward, I must have a reward. A reward for life just as I have lived it. James Purdy, The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy She sat down about two yards away from him, near a large wandering jew. I first heard about it at the faculty wives tea. Everything is discussed there. Im aware of that. Of course I would be the last to know. Wives always are. Come, come, Clara, my patience and my time are running out. Without warning he lifted up one of her hand-painted china cake plates and threw it against the wall. The outrage snapped the tension in the room, and she could weep now with some mild comfort, but without, he could see, any shock or concern for the priceless plate. (Aunt... Then giving another taste to his drink, leaving it more than half full, he would make a rather stately progress to the booth, partly closing the door. He would take down the receiver and hesitantly begin speaking into the mouthpiece. Actually Mr. Sendel was talking only to himself. He would talk for several minutes into the silent phone, explaining how worried he was and how despairing it was at his time of life when all or almost all those dear to one have departed. James Purdy, The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy
I'd only read MALCOLM before and liked but didn't love. I should probably go back and read it again having read this. Purdy's undeniably a genius. What amazes me is that all these stories of varying length, tone and theme all came from the same mind. Some might have surface similarities but no two are very much alike. With many collections--especially... Deeply, deeply weird. And probably more realistic than the average realist's work.... A few were so unique and so good...some were so depressing....
