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| Original Title: | Narrow Rooms |
| ISBN: | 078671669X (ISBN13: 9780786716692) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Appalachia(United States) |
James Purdy
Paperback | Pages: 185 pages Rating: 3.78 | 220 Users | 50 Reviews
Present Containing Books Narrow Rooms
| Title | : | Narrow Rooms |
| Author | : | James Purdy |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 185 pages |
| Published | : | August 18th 2005 by Da Capo Press (first published 1978) |
| Categories | : | LGBT. Horror. Fiction. GLBT. Queer. Classics. Gay. Gay Fiction |
Representaion Toward Books Narrow Rooms
A powerful story of love turned round, of passion and fierce discovery, of lives illuminated by flickering violence.As Purdy spins the story of the extraordinary symbiotic relationship between four boys in a remote West Virginia mountain town, led by the seemingly hypnotic power of the one known as "the renderer," the prose itself is rendered by Purdy into spare, ecstatic brilliance, and Narrow Rooms takes on the resonance of any time, any place, of haunted myth, of a tale of horror told in the darkness by generations, and never, never to be forgotten...
—From the first-edition dust jacket.
Rating Containing Books Narrow Rooms
Ratings: 3.78 From 220 Users | 50 ReviewsCrit Containing Books Narrow Rooms
A terrific book that captured my imagination.Purdy's work is both humbling and inspiring. He's that good. I found myself reading passages over and over, enrapt, amazed.
Narrow Rooms is the usual twisted, overwrought fun that is James Purdy. With emotions maintained in the extreme range throughout, it comes across as kind of one note unlike some of his other work which is more leavened. Populating the book are the usual characters enslaved by their emotions, choosing the path that promises the greatest pain. This is Purdyverse (I assume someone already coined that) where no one has a will of their own and everybody has to prove their love with violence.
Brutal and viciously emotional. There is no fat here, every sentence carries energy and resonates on impact.
OMG! I'll add more later when I recover from reading this...
Every so often I read a book that I cannot fault on its technical merits, but which leaves me utterly cold. Narrow Rooms is such a book. Purdy can surely write well, and tell a story skillfully. I have no problem whatsoever with the explicit sexual content. But none of the characters are people I would care to know. And the book left me with nothing but distaste for humanity. All in all, this isn't remotely what I'm looking for in my leisure reading.
Just....upsetting. Allegedly John Waters favorite gay novel. That says it all.
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