James Purdy: Life of a Contrarian Writer 9780197609743, 9780197609729, 0197609740

"One of the most iconoclastic twentieth-century American novelists, James Purdy penned original and sometimes shock

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James Purdy: Life of a Contrarian Writer
9780197609743, 9780197609729, 0197609740

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