James Purdy: In the Hollow of His Hand

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Purdy's characters inhabit an extravagant world in which lakes "savagely churn" and a dying man's lips are curtains of blood." Set in the larger-than-life 1920s, his rollicking story is equal to the purple prose: Chad, the illegitimate offspring of an Ojibwa Indian and a society matron, is successively abducted by his natural and legal fathers, all as a prelude to a succession of even more preposterous episodes as the boy escapes across the North Central states.
Purdy, as often before, favors a lamb-among-wolves as his hero; Chad's story is but a frame for the wry portrait of moral hypocrisy that is always at the heart of his books.

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Verlag	Grove Press
Sprache	English
Einband	Hardback (former library copy)
Seitenanzahl	254 pages
Erscheinungsjahr	1986
ISBN	1555840027

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