Written in the brilliantly idiosyncratic style for which James Purdy is famous, "The House of the Solitary Maggot" is a powerful tale of secret desires of which undermine and ultimately destroy the tenuous fabric of a family's life.
- ISBN10 0720606624
- ISBN13 9780720606621
- Publish Date 16 January 1986
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 October 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Peter Owen Publishers
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 360
- Language English