Abstract
Distinguished critics have written admiringly of Purdy's work, including Angus Wilson, Carl Van Vechten, George Steiner, and John Cowper Powys, and indeed it was Dame Edith Sitwell who, never having met him (and supposing him to be a Negro writer), arranged for his first publication with a British publisher. This was 63: Dream Palace, published in London in 1957. Although censored from the first edition, when the final line in the book was finally published-Up we go then, motherfucker-Purdy's name was established, for good and for ill.
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