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Eustace Chisholm and the Works - A literary cult hero of major proportions, James Purdy's exquisitely surreal fictionTennessee Williams meets William S. Burroughshas been populated for more than forty years by social outcasts living in crisis and longing for love. His acclaimed first novel, Malcolm (1959), won praise from writers as diverse as Dame Edith Sitwell, Dorothy Parker, and Gore Vidal, while his later works, from the award-winning In a Shallow Grave (1976) to Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue (1998), influenced new generations of authors. Eustace Chisholm and the Works, a 1967 novel that became a gay classic, is an especially outspoken book among the author's controversial body of work. Purdy recalls that Eustace Chisholm and the Worksnamed one of the Publishing Triangle's 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Novels of the 20th Centuryoutraged the New York literary establishment. More than breaking out of the pre-Stonewall closet, however, the book liberated its author and readers can be grateful for that."


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⚡️Book Title : Eustace Chisholm and the Works
⚡Book Author : James Purdy
⚡Page : 300 pages
⚡Published December 20th 2004 by Da Capo Press (first published 1967)

Eustace Chisholm and the Works

A literary cult hero of major proportions, James Purdy's exquisitely surreal fictionTennessee Williams meets William S. Burroughshas been populated for more than forty years by social outcasts living in crisis and longing for love. His acclaimed first novel, Malcolm (1959), won praise from writers as diverse as Dame Edith Sitwell, Dorothy Parker, and Gore Vidal, while his later works, from the award-winning In a Shallow Grave (1976) to Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue (1998), influenced new generations of authors. Eustace Chisholm and the Works, a 1967 novel that became a gay classic, is an especially outspoken book among the author's controversial body of work. Purdy recalls that Eustace Chisholm and the Worksnamed one of the Publishing Triangle's 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Novels of the 20th Centuryoutraged the New York literary establishment. More than breaking out of the pre-Stonewall closet, however, the book liberated its author and readers can be grateful for that."