Woman Named Drown - Hardcover

Powell, Padgett

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374292043 ISBN 13: 9780374292041

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 1987

Synopsis

A scientist encounters a variety of characters during a journey to his family's ample home in Baton Rouge, leading him to nonstandard conclusions regarding the act of living well.

About this title

Review:

“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 

About the Author:

Padgett Powell is the author of six novels, including The Interrogative Mood and You & Me. His novel Edisto was a finalist for the National Book Award. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Little Star, and the Paris Review, 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. 

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0374292043
• ISBN 13: 9780374292041
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 179