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first paperback edition of Purdy's recent stories
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A mysterious young man who disintegrates under the spell of an avaricious old lady's heirlooms; a romance between a "retired cannibal" and a Liberace-esque "songster"; and a violent orgy of pie-eating and fornication are among the topics of this remarkable collection. In Purdy's world a violent blood-letting is "like a gentle summer shower" and a domineering servant proclaims that "help like I can give is at a high bid today and scarcer than true love." Read alongside In the Hollow of His Hand ( LJ 9/1/86), these stories confirm Purdy's true gift for fiction; he uses the short story form to work out the themes of sexual obsession, ecstatic love, and fathomless disillusionment familiar from his novels, but with a brusque, at times cartoonlike execution. A hearty antidote to the Yuppie boredom of most contemporary short fiction. Rob Schmieder, Boston
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Publishers Weekly
"Short Papa," the tale of a child instructed to guard an heirloom watch, and the title story, which takes on sexual and societal taboos in a black man's obsessive love for a white teenager, are among the 14 stories here. "This collection . . . has a delightful freshness and vitality," said PW . "Purdy's language is sparse and his stories compressed, focusing on the intensity of the moment."
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- PublisherCity Lights Publishers
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0872862569
- ISBN 13 9780872862562
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages143
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