James Purdy's new novel, Garments the Living Wear, is a vision of evil and dark salvation peopled with bizarre and memorable characters. Satirizing life in New York City in the 1980s, its themes include the scourge of AIDS, criminal conspiracies, the excesses of the superrich, modern evangelism, and love in its many forms.
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James Purdy's new novel, Garments the Living Wear, is a vision of evil and dark salvation peopled with bizarre and memorable characters. Satirizing life in New York City in the 1980s, its themes include the scourge of AIDS, criminal conspiracies, the excesses of the superrich, modern evangelism, and love in its many forms.
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None. Fine in Near Fine jacket. A handsome edition of James Purdy's novel that satirizes 1980s New York. With themes including Aids, the excess of the super rich, modern evangalism. James Purdy (1914-2009) was a controversial American novelist, writer, poet and playwright. In a cloth binding. Externally, very smart with gilt lettering to spine. Dustwrapper unclipped and in sound condition with edgewear and faint handling marks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean Fine.
