"A literary cult hero of major proportions, James Purdy's exquisitely surreal fictionTennessee Williams meets William S. Burroughshas been populated for more than forty years by social outcasts living in crisis and longing for love. His acclaimed first novel, Malcolm (1959), won praise from writers as diverse as Dame Edith Sitwell, Dorothy Parker, and Gore Vidal, while his later works, from the award-winning In a Shallow Grave (1976) to Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue (1998), influenced new generations of authors. Eustace Chisholm and the Works, a 1967 novel that became a gay classic, is an especially outspoken book among the author's controversial body of work. Purdy recalls that Eustace Chisholm and the Worksnamed one of the Publishing Triangle's 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Novels of the 20th Centuryoutraged the New York literary establishment. More than breaking out of the pre-Stonewall closet, however, the book liberated its author and readers can be grateful for that."
"In een complex web van vooral homoseksuele relaties speelt de wreedheid van het lot een overheersende rol."
"Depiction of the strange world of a small group of Americans in Chicago during the depression."

"eustace chisholm and the works"
"Rose e cenere"
"Eustace Chisholm and the works"
"Rose e cenere"@it
"Eustace Chisholm and the works"@en
"Les Oeuvres d'Eustace : ["Eustace Chisholm and the works"]. Traduit de l'anglais par Suzanne Mayoux"
"Eustace. Chisholm and the works"@en
"Les oeuvres d'Eustace"
"Eustace Chisholm & consorten"
"Die Preisgabe : Roman"
"Die Preisgabe"
"Eustace Chisholm and the works : [the sensational novel of perverse love]"
"Die Preisgabe Roman"
"Eustace Chisholm & conserten"
"Les oeuvres d'Eustace : roman"
"Eustace Chisholm and the works : a novel"