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GCDS-9780872862395 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100120310 02 0872862399 03 9780872862395 15 9780872862395 BC 1 A01 Purdy, James James Purdy James Purdy was born and raised in Ohio and lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of many highly-acclaimed novels, short stories, poems, and plays, including <em>In a Shallow Grave</em>, <em>Garments the Living Wear</em>, and <em>The Candles of Your Eyes</em>, all published by City Lights Books. 01 eng 160 01 <P>James Purdy's novel, <em>Garments the Living Wear</em>, is a vision of evil and dark salvation peopled with bizarre and memorable characters. Satirizing life in New York City in the 1980s, its themes include the scourge of AIDS, criminal conspiracies, the excesses of the superrich, modern evangelism, and love in its many forms.</p> 02 James Purdy's novel, Garments the Living Wear, is a vision of evil and dark salvation peopled with bizarre and memorable characters. Satirizing life in New York City in the 1980s, its themes include the scourge of AIDS, criminal conspiracies, the... 08 "The scathing satire of Garments the Living Wear is achieved with ceremonious irony, as the haphazard indulgences of fatuously rich liberals and even crazier and richer crypto-Marxists are guided through the figures of a sexual labyrinth with surpassing misanthropy." The Times (London) 08 "Purdy's skill is to involve us in a geometric attachments of his characters while subtly altering the frames of references, creating a reality only to open up new dimensions within it. Suddenly swallows swoop through corridors, rooms fill with cicadas and bats gather outside. In a deft framing device which locates these extraordinary events in flash-back, we are returned at the end to precisely the point we started from, but in between we have been taken on an exhilarating excursion." City Limits 04 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100120310/images/87286100120310L.gif 07 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100120310/images/87286100120310S.gif http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100120310 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 19891001 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 19891001 01 02 7.95 USD