"Following the discovery of an anonymous libretto Abner Blossom comes out of retirement to write an opera based on the life of infamous novelist-turned-photographer Cyril Vane. But those who knew Vane and his Russian-born wife, the silent-screen star Madame Olga Petrovna, are prepared to go to any length to suppress the truth about them. Vane's dark secret follows him to the grave. But his jealous and vengeful widow and her faded cronies employ all the means at their disposal to prevent the opening of Blossom's opera. Out ...
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"Following the discovery of an anonymous libretto Abner Blossom comes out of retirement to write an opera based on the life of infamous novelist-turned-photographer Cyril Vane. But those who knew Vane and his Russian-born wife, the silent-screen star Madame Olga Petrovna, are prepared to go to any length to suppress the truth about them. Vane's dark secret follows him to the grave. But his jealous and vengeful widow and her faded cronies employ all the means at their disposal to prevent the opening of Blossom's opera. Out with the Stars is peopled by the gothic characters readers of James Purdy have come to anticipate and relish. From Val Sturgis, Kentucky boy made good and now Blossom's prot???eg???e, to Francis X. Beauregard, aging star of the silver screen now living surrounded by streetwise hustlers in his Brooklyn mansion. Back in print for the first time since 1993, Purdy's flamboyant tale of New York City's pre-Stonewall bohemia includes an incisive foreword by Robert J. Corber, placing the work within its rich social and cultural context"--
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. First British edition. Small sticker shadow on front pastedown, else fine in a near fine dust jacket with a tiny nick and small ink marking on the rear flap. A novel peopled with mysterious gothic characters recreating the composition of an opera about novelist and photographer Cyril Vane after the discovery of an anonymous manuscript.
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Near Fine. First British edition. Trade paperback. Spine mildly cocked, wrappers lightly sunned, else near fine. A novel peopled with mysterious gothic characters recreating the composition of an opera about novelist and photographer Cyril Vane after the discovery of an anonymous manuscript.
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Very Good in Near Fine jacket. First edition, hardcover issue. Old price label on front pastedown, binding slightly cocked and gently bumped at the spine ends, bright and very good or better in a lightly edgeworn, near fine dust jacket.
