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The Acolytes
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Abstract
In Purdy’s final decade, he enjoyed adulation but also suffered neglect. To fill a new collection, John Uecker helped Purdy find old story manuscripts, which he completed or revised. These joined a novella and stories he published in magazines in the 1990s. Moe’s Villa and Other Stories, published in Britain in 2000, was ignored by British critics and didn’t find an American publisher until 2004. Don Weise at Carrol & Graf published that book, reissued four Purdy titles, and befriended the author. In 2005, Gore Vidal celebrated Purdy and his new book in the New York Times. More recognition arrived with the Mercantile Library’s Clifton Fadiman Award for Excellence in Fiction for Eustace Chisholm and the Works (1967), nominated by Jonathan Franzen, who read it at Paula Fox’s urging. Purdy’s Selected Plays were published in 2009. Purdy died in March of that year.
Title: The Acolytes
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Abstract
In Purdy’s final decade, he enjoyed adulation but also suffered neglect.
To fill a new collection, John Uecker helped Purdy find old story manuscripts, which he completed or revised.
These joined a novella and stories he published in magazines in the 1990s.
Moe’s Villa and Other Stories, published in Britain in 2000, was ignored by British critics and didn’t find an American publisher until 2004.
Don Weise at Carrol & Graf published that book, reissued four Purdy titles, and befriended the author.
In 2005, Gore Vidal celebrated Purdy and his new book in the New York Times.
More recognition arrived with the Mercantile Library’s Clifton Fadiman Award for Excellence in Fiction for Eustace Chisholm and the Works (1967), nominated by Jonathan Franzen, who read it at Paula Fox’s urging.
Purdy’s Selected Plays were published in 2009.
Purdy died in March of that year.
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