EUSTACE CHISHOLM AND THE WORKS by James Purdy. 241 pages. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $5.95. “All I’ve been treated to for the last six months is stories about guys in love with guys.

Reviewing the book in 1967 for the New York Times, Wilfrid Sheed called “Eustace Chisholm” a “form of charade or peep show” and placed it in “that line of homosexual fiction which ...

His most influential novel, “Eustace Chisholm and the Works,” was published in 1967 to knee-jerk repulsion and eventual acclaim as a landmark of gay fiction. Reviewing the book in 1967 for The ...

Reviewing the book in 1967 for The New York Times, Wilfrid Sheed called “Eustace Chisholm” a “form of charade or peepshow” and placed it in “that line of homosexual fiction which ...

Orville Prescott, book critic for The New York Times ... His most influential novel, “Eustace Chisholm and the Works,” was published in 1967 to knee-jerk repulsion and eventual acclaim ...

Author James Purdy, a shocking realist and surprising romantic who in underground classics such as "Cabot Wright Begins" and "Eustace Chisholm and ... several books were reissued in recent years.