and numerous short stories and plays either enchanted or baffled critics with their gothic treatment of small-town innocents adrift in a corrupt and meaningless world, his distinctive blend of plain speech with ornate, florid locutions, and the hallucinatory quality of his often degraded scenes."I can describe my books as I see them as American, imaginative, symbolic," he told an interviewer for the reference work World Authors.
from The New York Times: James Purdy, Darkly Comic Writer, Dies at 94
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