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Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue Hardcover - 1998

by James Purdy


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In England his novels are always bestsellers, yet for the last decade this American literary master has not been published in his own country. No longer!

Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue displays the same plainspoken power that has dazzled Purdy's devoted audience for decades. The story of a woman's struggle to come to terms with a life seemingly emptied of meaning by her estranged daughter's death, it explores themes that Purdy has long made his own: the mysterious connections between creativity and self destruction; the human alchemy that binds us even as it forces us apart; the paradox of loss that leads ultimately to renewed life and love. Its portraits of two very different women -- a bereaved, bewildered mother and the artistic, passionate, doomed daughter she is still striving to understand -- are sketched in deceptively simple lines that finally, magically depict a complex world filled with characters observed in such utterly particular detail that they achieve a resonant universality that every reader will recognize.

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  • Title Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue
  • Author James Purdy
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 182
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher William Morrow & Company, New York
  • Date 1998
  • ISBN 9780688159016 / 068815901X
  • Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.61 x 5.8 x 0.76 in (21.87 x 14.73 x 1.93 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98010746
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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