Padgett Powell is the author of four novels, including Edisto, which was nominated for the National Book Award. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, The Paris Review, Esquire, and other publications, as well as in the anthologies Best American Short Stories and Best American Sports Writing/5. · **A special two-in-one edition of National Book Award finalist Padgett Powell’s acclaimed southern novels: Edisto and Edisto Revisited In Edisto, Simons Everson Manigault is not a typical twelve-year-old boy in tiny Edisto, South Carolina**,** in the late www.doorway.ru the insistence of his challenging mother, who believes her son to possess a capacity for genius, Simons immerses himself . Padgett Powell’s first novel () is about coming of age on Edisto, an undeveloped strip of coast between Savannah and Charleston, a “named but never discovered place in the South.” Simons Manigault (“You say it ‘Simmons.’.
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Padgett Powell's National Book Award-nominated first novel () about coming of age on Edisto, an undeveloped strip of coast between Savannah and Charleston, is "a startling book, full of new sights, sounds, and ways of feelingThe book is subtle, daring, and brilliant" (Donald Barthelme). Powell is obviously a Faulkner-ite, and "Edisto" could in many ways be considered a modern update of a Faulkner novel, primarily in how it treats white people and the African-Americans who live alongside them, along with its byzantine sentences. Padgett Powell’s first novel () is about coming of age on Edisto, an undeveloped strip of coast between Savannah and Charleston, a “named but never discovered place in the South.” Simons Manigault (“You say it ‘Simmons.’.
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