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Fiction of Gay Interest
Plot / Content: Rating: N "When Wilders Fergus married Elvira Summerlad, he was a rising young financier with his first million in his pocket. Within a year, he had ruined not only himself, but Elvira's people as well. As the novel opens, Wilders is preparing to return after a ten-year exile to his wife and three sons. His sister Winifred, who once put a curse on his marriage, now determines to save it. Elvira, having raised her sons single-handed, feels her power over them beginning to decline - the eldest keeps company with a debauched society of brilliant failures and dreams of the New York stage; his crippled and prematurely wise brother is the solitary chronicler of his family's monstrous indiscretions. Only Elvira's youngest child and her adolescent admirer Matt Lacey remain her uncritical slaves. "Moving between the great family homes - the ill-famed boarding house in Boutflur, the white mansion in Paulding Meadows - Jeremy's Version follows the final and terrible confrontation between the primal enemies, Winifred and Elvira, the divorce trial and its unforeseen verdict, and the fairground denoument where at last ambivalent love erupts in a desperate act of violence. It is the onlooker, MattLacey, who is left to recount the story years later through the pen of a spellbound young scribe." (from the dustjacket) Background / Biography:
Reviews: "James Purdy taps deep rivers, disturbing undercurrents, in a prose that's poetic int he best sense - a metaphorical structure that compresses and illumines reality without copying it." Los Angeles Times "Purdy's talent shines through in his highly polished characterizations, the intricate set of interrelationships and deeply foreboding insight." Publishers Weekly (from the dustjacket) Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"No one hated more dearly my home town of Boutflour, planked down far south in this 'Yankee state', than my Uncle Matt Lacey. I say uncle, though he was neither kith nor kin of mine, and as my half sister Della Gassman, with whom I lived, explained it, he was uncle to nobody of flesh and blood. Though I knew him by sight from his frequent comings and goings in and out of the court house, public library, newspaper office and saloon, I would never have made his actual acquaintance had I not decided against my better judgement to take the 'worst' paper route in town, number 9, which circulated down by the riverside, where houses and customers were few, and those few oftener than not dead-beats and quitters, but I was a 'starter' as the woman at the head of the paper office emphasized, and could not be choosy, and it was the river route where all the boys began. Uncle Matt's house lay situated blocks apart from other houses, and was the last one on this route; beyond it was the city limits and the river itself." opening paragraphs Secondhand booksellers |
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