Edisto: A Novel

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Macmillan, Feb 3, 2009 - Fiction - 192 pages

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 "truly remarkable . . . both as a narrative and in its extraordinary use of language" (Walker Percy).

 

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Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
14
Section 3
22
Section 4
26
Section 5
34
Section 6
46
Section 7
52
Section 8
68
Section 13
116
Section 14
119
Section 15
129
Section 16
138
Section 17
142
Section 18
147
Section 19
154
Section 20
160

Section 9
77
Section 10
86
Section 11
92
Section 12
96
Section 21
163
Section 22
166
Section 23
173
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About the author (2009)

Padgett Powell has received the Prix de Rome of the American Academy of Arts & Letters, a Whiting Writer's Award, & a nomination for the National Book Award for his first novel, "Edisto." He resides in Gainesville, Florida.

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