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Title: I Am Elijah Thrush
Condition: New
Author: James Purdy
Contributor: Robert J. Corber (Foreword by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1531501192
EAN: 9781531501198
ISBN: 9781531501198
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Genre: History
Topic: Fiction
Release Date: 04/10/2022
Description:

On its surface, I Am Elijah Thrush is the story of Millicent De Frayne and her sensational half century campaign to win the love of Elijah Thrush. Elijah, after ruining the lives of countless men and women, is finally in love “incorrectly, if not indecently,” with his great-grandson, Bird of Heaven. To support an unusual habit, a young Black man, Albert Peggs, reluctantly agrees to tell their remarkable story. It is in this telling the ambitions, desires, and true natures of Elijah, Millicent, and Albert come to light. With a delicately controlled balance of whimsy and pathos, James Purdy gives us this comedy of the heroic, the tragic, and the truly bizarre.
Met with critical bewilderment upon its initial publication fifty years ago, this new edition offers a foreword by Robert J. Corber illuminating Purdy’s “complicated allegory” of objectification, desire, and race in the immediate post-Civil Rights moment.

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