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Narrow Rooms by James Purdy – AV


Narrow Rooms by James Purdy Reviewed by fiction editor Anthony Vacca You can find this, and other reviews by Anthony, on his goodread's page. Narrow Rooms is a rural melodrama that approaches its theme of gay love with the same heightened grotesqueness that Flannery O'Connor brings to her subject of religious madness. It doesn't work. Purdy puts his four protagonists—a jailbird…