Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780916583217
Publisert
1987-05-14
Utgiver
Dalkey Archive Press; Dalkey Archive Press
Vekt
213 gr
Høyde
218 mm
Bredde
139 mm
Dybde
12 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
151
Forfatter
Dowell writes with a superb power of constant implicationalways careful, always energetic, always suggestive. -- Thom Gunn, Times Literary Supplement This novel is a meticulously and subtly composed tour de force on the imagination. -- Gilbert Sorrentino, New York Times Book Review
Coleman Dowell's "Southern Gothic" is a novel about sexual repression. Miss Ethel, a spinster school teacher, decides to write what she calls a "perverse tale" about one of her former students, a Kentucky farmer named Jim Cummins. Endowing him with unnaturally large genitals, she spins a tawdry tale of his frustrated relationship with his petite wife. Expressing all the bitterness of "an old woman's revenge," Miss Ethel's tale is nonetheless a sensitive depiction of rural life in the early years of World War II.Dowell's masterful use of the tale-within-a-tale to explore psychological states makes "Too Much Flesh and Jabez" a memorable achievement.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780916583217
Publisert
1987-05-14
Utgiver
Dalkey Archive Press; Dalkey Archive Press
Vekt
213 gr
Høyde
218 mm
Bredde
139 mm
Dybde
12 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
151
Forfatter