Edisto Revisited: A Novel
Padgett Powell
Henry Holt (1996)
In Collection
#137
0*
Domestic Fiction
Fiction / General, South Carolina
Hardcover 9780805042375
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.
Product Details
LoC Classification PS3566.O8328 .E34 1996
LoC Control Number 95034071
Dewey 813.54
Cover Price $20.00
No. of Pages 145
Height x Width 8.7 x 5.7  inch
Personal Details
Read It Yes
Location Fiction
Purchase Date 4/11/2017
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