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Edisto / Padgett Powell.
- Title
- Edisto / Padgett Powell.
- Author
- Powell, Padgett
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3566.O8328 E3 2009 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 183 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "A novel that has drawn comparisons with the work of J.D. Salinger, Truman Capote, and Flannery O?Connor, Edisto centers on one Simons Everson Manigault, a twelve-year-old possessed of a vocabulary and sophistication way beyond his years and a preadolescent bewilderment with the behavior of adults. These include his mother, who is known as the Duchess, and his enigmatic father-surrogate, Taurus. Imbued with a strong sense of place?an isolated strip of South Carolina coast called Edisto?Padgett Powell's novel is "a tour de force ... Some turn a phase, some flash of humor, some freshly observed detail, some accurately rendered perception of a child's pain or a child's amazement, transfigures every page" ... --Cover, p. 4.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Bildungsromans
- Fiction
- Note
- "Portions of this book appeared in the New Yorker"--T.p. verso.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780374531683 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0374531684 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2008934379
- OCLC
- 318204249
- SCSB-11853105
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library