Eustace Chisholm and the Works
Eustace Chisholm and the Works No James Purdy novel has dazzled contemporary writers more than this haunting tale of unrequited love in an indifferent world. A cast of characters displaced by…
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Eustace Chisholm and the Works
No James Purdy novel has dazzled contemporary writers more than this haunting tale of unrequited love in an indifferent world. A cast of characters displaced by economic distress congeal around the embittered poet Eustace Chisholm, who acts as a something of a Greek chorus for the doomed and destructive relationship that is instigated when landlord Daniel Haws falls in love with young college student Amos Ratcliffe. A seedy depression-era boarding house in Chicago plays host to "a game of emotional chairs" (The Guardian) in a novel initially condemned for its frank depiction of abortion, homosexuality, and life on the margins of American society.
Building to a shocking conclusion, Eustace Chisholm and the Works is a dark and gothic look at the strange and terrible power of love amid a "psychic American landscape of deluded innocence, sexual obsession, violence, and
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