Edisto: A NovelA 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). |
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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