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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant, Caustic Satire of Corporate America,
By George De Stefano "Author and Critic" (Long Island City, NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cabot Wright Begins (Paperback)
James Purdy, the Ohio-born novelist, short story writer, poet and playwright, has written many powerful, strange, disturbing, funny and unforgettable works, and "Cabot Wright Begins" is one of his best. I was introduced to it in an American Literature course when I was a college student in the early 1970s. Its savagely funny and biting critique of American business and sexual mores stunned me. I have read the novel several times, as well as almost all Purdy's fiction. There's something wonderfully disorienting about his style and worldview. He's also hard to categorize --- regionalist? fantasist? realist? gay?-- and therefore to market, the result being that far too readers know of this unique writer. "Cabot Wright Begins" is a great place to start for any reader who wants to encounter James Purdy, a weird, wise and wonderful writer whose work makes much American fiction look like pabulum.
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CABOT WRIGHT BEGINS by James Purdy (Hardcover - 1965)
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