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  • Aliens of Affection

    Stories

    by Padgett Powell ...
    A New York Times Notable Book: The idiosyncratic genius of Padgett Powell shines through in nine stories that bend the conventions of short fiction.Padgett Powell's literary stage is a blurred vision of the American South. His characters are bored, sad, assured, confused, deluded, and often just one step away from madness. The stories they populate are madder still, delivered by a voice ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Edisto

    A Novel

    by Padgett Powell ...
    Finalist for the National Book Award: Through the eyes of a precocious twelve-year-old in a seaside South Carolina town, the world of love, sex, friendship, and betrayal blossomsSimons Everson Manigault is not a typical twelve-year-old boy in tiny Edisto, South Carolina , in the late 1960s. At the insistence of his challenging mother (known to local blacks as "the Duchess"), who believes her son ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hologram

    A Novel

    by Padgett Powell ...
    A housewife revels in the secret world of her mind filled with historical characters and twisted love stories in this inventive sendup of Southern fiction.Mrs. Hollingsworth sits at her kitchen table, compiling her grocery list. The subject of the list is not foodstuffs, but memories that never happened, inventions of loves, and strange conspiracies peopled by men who appear in the lonely ... Read more

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  • Typical

    Stories

    by Padgett Powell ...
    Twenty-three surreal fictions—stories, character assassinations, and mini-travelogues—from one of the most heralded writers of the American SouthThere are many things that repulse "Dr. Ordinary." "Kansas" is notable for its distinct lack of farmland. "Wayne's Fate" is most unfortunate, not merely for Wayne but for the roofer pal who stands by watching his good buddy lose his head. "Miss ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Edisto and Edisto Revisited

    by Padgett Powell ...
    A special two-in-one edition of National Book Award finalist Padgett Powell's acclaimed southern novels: Edisto and Edisto RevisitedIn Edisto, Simons Everson Manigault is not a typical twelve-year-old boy in tiny Edisto, South Carolina , in the late 1960s. At the insistence of his challenging mother, who believes her son to possess a capacity for genius, Simons immerses himself in great literature ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Woman Named Drown

    A Novel

    by Padgett Powell ...
    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 sharkOn 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 ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Edisto Revisited

    A Novel

    by Padgett Powell ...
    In the sequel to Powell's acclaimed debut, Edisto, Simons Manigault is older—if not particularly wiser—and searching for the cure to his restlessness in memory, travel, and forbidden loveFourteen years after we first met Simons Manigault, our protagonist is newly graduated from Clemson University, bored, unfocused, and idling his summer away at his mother's home in Edisto, South Carolina. Not yet ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • You & Me

    A Novel

    by Padgett Powell ...
    Padgett Powell, author of the acclaimed The Interrogative Mood and “one of the few truly important American writers of our time” (Sam Lipsyte), returns with a hilarious Southern send-up of Samuel Beckett’s classic Waiting for Godot.Truly a master of envelope-pushing, post-postmodern American fiction, in a class with Nicholas Baker and Lydia Davis, Powell brilliantly blends the sublime, the trivial ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Interrogative Mood

    A Novel?

    by Padgett Powell ...
    “If Duchamp or maybe Magritte wrote a novel (and maybe they did. Did they?) it might look something like this remarkable little book of Padgett Powell’s.”—Richard FordThe 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, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Blasphemy and Other Ancestors

    by Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Lee Henderson, James Darius, Padgett Powell ...
    Blasphemy and Other Ancestors is comprised of four novellas, in which authors Padgett Powell, Darius James, Lee Henderson, and Jean Marc Ah-Sen explore the tag end of existence and the abasements that memory holds in store for characters living "outside of their time."In Blasphemy and Other Ancestors, a Southern man of letters tries to instruct his assistant on the matters of the heart, a self ... Read more

    $6.79 USD

  • Indigo

    Arm Wrestling, Snake Saving, and Some Things In Between

    by Padgett Powell ...
    The first collection of nonfiction by "one of the few truly important American writers of our time" (Sam Lipsyte).Gathering pieces written during the past three decades, Indigo ranges widely in subject matter and tone, opening with “Cleve Dean,” which takes Padgett Powell to Sweden for the World Armwrestling Federation Championships, through to its closing title piece, which charts Powell’s ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Cries for Help, Various

    Stories

    by Padgett Powell ...
    Named a Best Book of 2015 by NPR and Vanity Fair"Rifles through fear, identity, meaning, and cultural memory in forty–four short, surreal stories." —Vanity Fair"By turns moving, funny, and maddening…. very much in the key of Donald Barthelme." —The New York Times Book Review"Somehow both grounded and absurd, each one of the stories trying get at that heart of the confusion and sadness at the core ... Read more

    $11.99 USD