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 ...
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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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Add this copy of Narrow Rooms to cart. $15.99, good condition, Sold by True Oak Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Highland, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Carroll & Graf Publishers.
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Good. 078671669X. Stain to edge of pages due to a spill, top edge. Sharpie marks on page exterior edges. Yellowing to pages. Good overall condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings on text pages.; 191 pages.
Add this copy of Narrow Rooms to cart. $16.00, very good condition, Sold by Half Price Books Inc rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Carroll & Graf.
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Add this copy of Narrow Rooms to cart. $40.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1978 by Arbor House.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. A bit of faint spotting on topedge, slight rubbing on the spine, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light toning.
Add this copy of Narrow Rooms to cart. $40.00, very good condition, Sold by Goodbar Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cottage Grove, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1978 by Arbor House.
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Very good in fair dust jacket. Square spine has a very subtle lean. Clean, unmarked interior. Only very light shelf-wear to the book. Jacket has several closed tears and chips, as well as a few small areas of light rubbing. 'I m not a gay writer, ' chronic contrarian Purdy once said. 'I m a monster. Gay writers are too conservative. ' Being published, he said, was like 'throwing a party for friends and all these coarse wicked people come instead, and break the furniture and vomit all over the house. ' And: 'Critics would like to carry [my books] off to the shit-yard, [but] they can t, because they haunt people. ' Often underappreciated by the American literary establishment, he was better received across the pond and by his request is interred next to the grave of Edith Sitwell, who helped him publish his early novella, 63: Dream Palace, in 1957. This first edition of Narrow Rooms, a book Derek Jarman attempted to adapt to film when he was in the process of dying, features a campily Michener-esque jacket design by Loretta Trezzo, better known for her surrealistic Robert Silverberg covers. 185 pp.
Add this copy of Narrow Rooms to cart. $47.85, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Da Capo Press.
Add this copy of Narrow Rooms to cart. $75.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1978 by Arbor House.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Fine in a near fine mildly age-toned glossy dustwrapper. Advance Review copy with the publisher's prospectus laid in.
Add this copy of Narrow Rooms to cart. $150.00, like new condition, Sold by Argosy Book Store rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1980 by Black Sheep Books.
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Fine in fine jacket. 8vo, blue cloth, d.w. Black Sheep Books/ Ram Publishing Co. (1980). First Edition. Autographed by Purdy on the title page. Enclosed is a promotional sheet for the book from Arbor House.
Add this copy of Narrow Rooms to cart. $225.51, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1980 by Black Sheep Books.
