CHILDREN IS ALL
JAMES PURDY
Ten new stories and two plays
"A sublime work of pity and tenderness ... could only have been writ.
ten by a great writer"-Edith Sitwell,
N. Y. Herald Tribune
"Anyone who cares for creative vitality must add Purdy to the small
list of writers who
matter"-N. Y. Times Book Review
"We can rejoice again in the possession of this new work by one of
America's best
writers"-Saturday Review
"No one since Henry James has contributed as much to the short story
as James Purdy . . . an extraordinary book"-Carl Van Vechten
"Excellent collection. A genuinely
original~if
sometimes terrifying–
mind"-Santha Rama Rau
"The two short plays point to a time when, if Mr. Purdy cares to write
for it, the American theatre may truly come of age in sensitivity and
sensibility"-William Archibald
"Using gentility and restraint like a pair of swords, Purdy slits open a
world so horrible and funny that who can doubt for a minute it
is
ours?
These stories are the surest thing he's done so far, and they leave me
with the feeling of having been to a quiet tea party in Babylon or
Sodom"-Alfred Chester
$4.25
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