1 Story Book & 2 Novels by Padgett Powell
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Overview: Padgett Powell (born April 25, 1952) is an American novelist in the Southern literary tradition. His debut novel, Edisto (1984), was nominated for the American Book Award and was excerpted in The New Yorker. Powell has written four more novels—including Edisto Revisited (1996), a sequel to his debut, Mrs. Hollingsworth’s Men (2000), The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? (2009), and You & Me (2012), his most recent—and two collections of short stories: Typical and Aliens of Affection.
Genre: Fiction / Humor
Typical: Stories
Typical is anything but a typical collection of short stories–it’s a dazzling display of verbal pyrotechnics and literary lunacy, mordantly outrageous Southern Gothic wit, and incidents that transcend reality and take on an irrepressible logic of their own. The title story, selected for The Best American Short Stories of 1990, is a gem of modern madness played out by a down-and-out Texas realist. "The Winnowing of Mrs. Schuping" is a Florida-based love story unlike any other romantic tale, yet the characters are so real and true that they linger in the mind.
The Interrogative Mood: A Novel?
The Interrogative Mood is a wildly inventive, jazzy meditation on life and language by the novelist that Ian Frazier hails as “one of the best writers in America, and one of the funniest, too.” A novel composed entirely of questions, it is perhaps the most audacious literary high-wire act since Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine or David Foster Wallace’s stories.
A Woman Named Drown
On the brink of earning his doctorate in chemistry, the unnamed narrator decides to chuck it all away in favor of real life. So begins an odd pilgrimage through the American South. In Tennessee, our hero is bewitched by an older, gin-swilling, pool-playing sometimes-actress who claims to have recently starred in a theatrical production about a “woman named Drown.” He moves in with her and just as quickly begins encountering her strange compatriots. Before he knows it, they’re heading farther south together—to Florida—where the data that the dropout scientist is collecting from life’s laboratory is about to get quite contradictory.
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