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Introduced simply as the boy on the bench, the titular character of Malcolm is a Candide-like figure who is picked up by the most famous astrologer of his period and introduced to a series of increasingly absurd characters and bizarre situations in the most prodigiously funny book to streak across these heavy-hanging times (Dorothy Parker)."
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Starting out absurd, and only getting more so, it's an idiosyncratic, satirical coming-of-age fable that was ahead of its time when first published in 1959 and retains its aura of originality and weirdness even now. --The Herald
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James Purdy, born in 1914, is undergoing a major literary renaissance. The author of Malcolm and now The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy, he lived in New York until his death in 2009.
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- PublisherLiveright
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 0871409577
- ISBN 13 9780871409577
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