{"product_id":"cabot-wright-begins-paperback","title":"Cabot Wright Begins - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Purdy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCabot Wright is a handsome, Yale-educated stockbroker and scion of a good family. He also happens to be the convicted rapist of nearly three hundred women. Bernie Gladhart is a naive used-car salesman from Chicago, who--spurred on by his ambitious wife--decides to travel to Brooklyn and write the Great American Novel about the recently paroled Cabot Wright. As Bernie tries to track down Wright in Brooklyn, he encounters a series of bizarre and Dickensian characters and sets in motion an extraordinary chain of events. In this merciless and outrageous satire of American culture, cult writer James Purdy is unsparing and prophetic in his portrayal of television, publishing, Wall Street, race, urban poverty, sex, and the false values of American culture in a work compared to \u003cem\u003eCandide\u003c\/em\u003e by Susan Sontag. Considered too scabrous for the stifling culture mores of the early 1960s, Purdy's comic fiction evokes \"an American psychic landscape of deluded innocence, sexual obsession, violence and isolation\" (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 22, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47449854673074,"sku":"9780871403520","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/5bfe0c84825db62c607b751112667772.webp?v=1778774069","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/cabot-wright-begins-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}