by John Waters
Book design by Chris Welch
Production manager: Anna Oler
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Purdy, James, 1914–2009.
[Short stories]
The complete short stories of James Purdy / James Purdy ;
introduction by John Waters. — First edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-87140-669-9 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-0-87140-695-8 (e-book)
1. Short stories, American. I. Waters, John. II. Title.
PS3531.U426C66 2013
813’.54—dc23
2013013992
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WORKS BY JAMES PURDY
NOVELS
Malcolm
The Nephew
Cabot Wright Begins
Eustace Chisholm and the Works
Jeremy’s Version
I Am Elijah Thrush
The House of the Solitary Maggot
In a Shallow Grave
Narrow Rooms
Dream Palaces: Three Novels
Mourners Below
On Glory’s Course
In the Hollow of His Hand
Garments the Living Wear
Reaching Rose
Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue
SHORT STORIES AND PLAYS
Don’t Call Me by My Right Name and Other Stories
63: Dream Palace and Other Stories
Color of Darkness
Children Is All
A Day After the Fair
Proud Flesh
The Candles of Your Eyes
Out with the Stars
In the Night of Time and Four Other Plays
Dream Palace: Selected Stories, 1956–1987
Epistles of Care
Moe’s Villa and Other Stories
James Purdy: Selected Plays
POETRY
Collected Poems
The Brooklyn Branding Parlors
The Oyster Is a Wealthy Beast
The Blue Room
The Running Sun
I Will Arrest the Bird That Has No Light
Don’t Let the Snow Fall
Sunshine Is an Only Child
Lessons and Complaints