Edisto revisited
a novel
1st ed.
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Word Count
36,250 words, Guess
Page Count
145 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL797900M
- ISBN-100805042377
- OCLC Control Number32855538
- OCLC Control Numberedistorevisitedn0000powe
- Library of Congress Control Number95034071
and 2 more
- LibraryThing449466
- Goodreads3076296
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3566.O8328 E34 1996
Description
Padgett Powell's fourth work of fiction picks up several years after his first left off, on a strip of coast in the low country of South Carolina, sometime home to Simons Manigault. Simons is now out of college and trying to forestall the career expected by his ebulliently conventional father. His mother, the hard-drinking literary doctor, favors otherwise and quietly engineers the opening of other avenues to her son. One of these is scandalous. We meet again Powell's distinctive supporting cast: the longtime caretaker, Athenia; Jake, the solid bartender of Simons's childhood hangout, the Baby Grand; the displaced, confused gentry; and the mysterious Taurus, whose lack of presumption marks Simons as both boy and man. A significant newcomer is Simons's cousin Patricia Hod, depicted with the narrator's usual combination of sardonic humor and dead seriousness.
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- Edisto revisited: a novel
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