James Purdy (1914–2009)
Autor von Malcolm (7443 609). Roman.
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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 mehr anzeigen 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) weniger anzeigen
Bildnachweis: Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-103693 DLC
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Purdy, James Otis
- Geburtstag
- 1914-07-17
- Todestag
- 2009-03-13
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Hicksville, Ohio, USA
- Sterbeort
- Brooklyn Heights, New York, USA
- Wohnorte
- Fremont, Ohio, USA (birth)
Brooklyn, New York, USA - Ausbildung
- University of Chicago
University of Puebla
University of Madrid - Organisationen
- Lawrence University
- Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Publishing Triangle (Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement, 1991)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1958)
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Malcolm von Edward Albee
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.
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.… (mehr)
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.… (mehr)
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.
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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