Author: James Purdy Year: 1960 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction
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The Nephew (1960), Purdy's second novel, tells of the revelations following the death in war of the nephew of a doting spinster, a retired schoolteacher, in a small Midwest town, who decides to write a memorial booklet. She thereby learns more than she wants to about him and about life as she discovers he was a homosexual.
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