Author Name: Purdy, James
Title: The House of the Solitary Maggot, Part Two of Continuous Novel Sleepers in Moon-Crowned Valleys
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First British Edition; First Printing
Publisher: UK Peter Owens 1986
ISBN Number: 0720606624 / 9780720606621
Illustrator: Illustrated by Cunningham, Keith
Seller ID: 16154
360 pages; Very Good/Fine. 1st British Edition. Attractive gray cloth boards with bright yellow lettering. Just barely starting at front hinge. Outside page edges are age tanned. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ is Fine. In protective sleeve. This is the second novel in a sequence of novels by James Purdy, and can be read in apposition to Jeremy's Version, which was published in 1970, but it stands on its own as a separate individual work. The people of Prince's Crossing called him the old maggot. Not just because he was despicably rich or lived in a house far larger than his needs, nor because he owned all their farms, or sired the young men... Someow, it was more appropriate.
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