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Narrow rooms / James Purdy ; with a new introduction by Giordano Tedoldi.
Van Pelt Library PS3531.U426 N37 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Purdy, James, 1914-2009, author.
- Series:
- Valancourt 20th century classics.
- Valancourt 20th century classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teenagers--West Virginia--Fiction.
- Teenagers.
- Ex-convicts--Fiction.
- Ex-convicts.
- West Virginia--Fiction.
- West Virginia.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 188 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Richmond, Virginia : Valancourt Books, 2019.
- Summary:
- Released from a prison sentence for manslaughter, Sidney De Lakes returns home to West Virginia, where, in order to exorcise the memory of the lover he killed, he must keep his appointment with destiny in the shape of the man known as "the Renderer." In this story of the powerful, violent passions of four young men in the remote Appalachians, James Purdy has crafted one of his most haunting and memorable works.
- Notes:
- Originally published by Arbor House in 1978.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Tom Farinholt and Blair Edlow Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781948405256
- 1948405253
- OCLC:
- 1085967014
- Publisher Number:
- 99991622657
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