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      Narrow Rooms

      by James Purdy
      Published
      Aug 2005
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      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      185
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      Gore Vidal's recent feature profile of James Purdy in the Sunday New York Times Book Review signaled the long overdue arrival of a major literary cult hero into the American canon. Purdy's exquisitely surreal fiction has been populated for more than 40 years by social outcasts living in crisis and longing for love. However, Purdy was also among the first novelists to incorporate transgressive renderings of gay life into his work, including unapologetic, sexually explicit material. Narrow Rooms—his 1978 classic that ranks among his most masterful novels—is a passionate and sometimes bloody love story about adolescent obsession and revenge.

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      First Edition Aug 2005 Carroll & Graf ISBN13 9780786716692 ISBN10 078671669X
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      Feb 1997 Millivres Prowler Group ISBN13 9780907040576 ISBN10 0907040578
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      Mar 2019 Valancourt Books ISBN13 9781948405256 ISBN10 1948405253
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      Jan 1978 Arbor House Publishing ISBN13 9780877951834 ISBN10 0877951837
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      Mar 2019 Valancourt Books ISBN13 2940161318003
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      Mar 2019 Valancourt Books ISBN10 B07NPWNQWM
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      Jun 2020 Valancourt Books ISBN10 B08FHFXBDJ
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