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

Malcolm

PURDY, James

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

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

63: Dream Palace

United States

Mourners Below

<p>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</p>

<p>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</p>

On Glory's Course (Contemporary American Fiction)

I am Elijah Thrush

CAPE.

The twenty-first-century revival of James Purdy continues with his classic novel of innocence and corruption. Introduced simply as “the boy on the bench,” the titular character of Malcolm is a Candide-like figure who is picked up by the “most famous astrologer of his period” and introduced to a series of increasingly absurd characters and bizarre situations in “the most prodigiously funny book to streak across these heavy-hanging times” (Dorothy Parker).

Malcolm.

Poetry

NY: FARRAR, STRAUS & CUDAHY. 1959

Dust jacket design by Catherine Hopkins. The first novel in the series collectively known as Sleepers In Moon-Crowned Valleys.

Jeremy's Version

Literary

DOUBLEDAY

The people of Princeâs Crossing called him the old maggot. Not just because he was despicably rich, nor because he owned all their farms, or sired the wild young men who tore up the roads with their galloping horsesâit was because they could not pronounce the word magnate, which Mr. Skegg assuredly was.Lady Bythewaite, his common-law wife, had a devouring love that filled her entire existence, but never affected her iron will and the implacable destiny that led from it. Only Clarence of the three sons could claim the Skegg name, and at the first opportunity he ran off to New York to change it. When he came back, it was with a new name, silent picture fame, and a deadly vengeance to act out. Owen Hawkins was the âacknowledgedâ son who lived with Lady Bythewaite. A delicate lad, his world included each of his family, with a devotion that was frightening. Aiken Cusworth was the bastard. A great hulking horse-tamer with the smell of the fields and animals on him, he had a single bent that yanked man and beast to the line of his terrible whim. Together, they lived in the house of the solitary maggot.

The House of the Solitary Maggot

I Am Elijah Thrush.

doubleday& co.

Color of Darkness & Malcolm

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