A Woman Named Drown (PDF)
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
Hailed by Time as an “extravagantly comic” novel, A Woman Named Drown is a wild and strange journey through America’s South that follows a young PhD dropout who falls in with an amateur actress–cum-pool shark
On the brink of...
On the brink of...
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Hailed by Time as an “extravagantly comic” novel, A Woman Named Drown is a wild and strange journey through America’s South that follows a young PhD dropout who falls in with an amateur actress–cum-pool shark
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.
Richly influenced by offbeat literary giant Donald Barthelme, Padgett Powell’s A Woman Named Drown offers readers a smorgasbord of literary strangeness—a surreal series of adventures in which nothing much—and yet everything—happens at once.
Autoren-Porträt von Padgett Powell
<DIV>Padgett Powell is the author of six novels, including <i>The Interrogative Mood</i> and <i>You & Me. </i>His novel <i>Edisto</i> was a finalist for the National Book Award. His writing has appeared in the<i> New Yorker</i>,<i> Harper’s Magazine</i>,<i> Little Star</i>, and the <i>Paris Review</i>, and he is the recipient of the Rome Fellowship in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the Whiting Writers’ Award. He lives in Gainesville, Florida, where he teaches writing at MFA@FLA, the writing program of the University of Florida. </div>
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Padgett Powell
- 2014, 180 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- ISBN-10: 1480464201
- ISBN-13: 9781480464209
- Erscheinungsdatum: 07.01.2014
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“We are on the border of Donald Barthelme’s never-never land. . . . Powell is very funny. His characters are raffish clowns with foul mouths and a kind of crazy sweetness. This is special stuff. There’s a lot of vivid life here.” —People“Powell’s ear for Southern speech is impeccable.” —Publishers Weekly
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