Padgett Powell, Author . Ecco $21.99 (164p) ISBN 978-0-06-185941-0
Powell (Mrs. Hollinsworth's Men
) is in playfully provocative, top form in this slender book fashioned solely as a series of questions beginning with his limpid first: “Are your emotions pure?” and ending with his prickly last: ̶
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Padgett Powell, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $20 (144p) ISBN 978-0-618-07168-5
There is a trick to reading Powell's evocative daydream of a novel: don't stop halfway across this swinging bridge between reality and the eponymous protagonist's phantasmic imagination. Don't stop and, above all, don't look down. Powell (Edisto; A...
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Padgett Powell, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $14.95 (152p) ISBN 978-0-374-29204-1
Critics and readers lauded Edisto, Powell's first novel, for its originality and witty, mannered prose. His second book does not live up to expectations. The slim tale, narrated by a young man who abandons his doctorate program in chemistry to amass
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Padgett Powell, Author Henry Holt & Company $22.5 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5213-8
Shunted one way or another to the margins of the New South, the characters in these witty but often formulaic nine stories struggle for something approaching love and acceptance. As Mr. Albemarle, a character in the title story says: ""Affection was
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Padgett Powell. Ecco, $23.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-212613-9
Powell (The Interrogative Mood) asks what happens to a novel when it’s stripped of exposition, setting, and plot. What remains is dialogue, the sort of ribald dialogue that Barry Hannah’s liars might cast out over the water, pining for sex, drink,...
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Padgett Powell. Catapult (PGW, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (200p) ISBN 978-1-936787-31-9
Powell (Edisto) has occasionally been pigeonholed as a sort of Southern Donald Barthelme, and it is true that most of the 44 stories collected here can be described as short comic tales with a distinct Dixie swagger. But these stories offer even...
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