Download or read book Cabot Wright Begins written by James Purdy and published by New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux [1964]. This book was released on 1964 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cabot 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.