Cabot Wright Begins
Cabot Wright is a handsome, Yale-educated stockbroker and scion of a good family. He also happens to be the convicted rapist of nearly three hundred women. Bernie Gladhart is a naive used-car salesman from Chicago, who-spurred on by his ambitious wife-decides to travel to Brooklyn and write the Great American Novel about the recently paroled Cabot Wright. As Bernie tries to track down Wright in Brooklyn, he encounters a series of bizarre and Dickensian characters and sets in motion an extraordinary chain of events. In this merciless and outrageous satire of American culture, cult writer James Purdy is unsparing and prophetic in his portrayal…
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- ISBN: 978-0-87140-352-0
- EAN: 9780871403520
- Produktnummer: 19406544
- Verlag: Liveright Pub Corp
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 252 S.
- Masse: H21.1 cm x B14.1 cm x D1.9 cm 220 g
- Gewicht: 220
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James Purdy, born in 1914, is undergoing a major literary renaissance. The author of Malcolm and now The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy, he lived in New York until his death in 2009.
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