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James Purdy
(b.1923)

James Purdy's novels often describe obsessive love between men for whom homosexuality is unthinkable and whose fate is inevitably bleak. For example, 63:Dream Palace (1956), his first novel, deals with obsessive love, homosexuality, and urban alienation, and ends with fratricide.

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