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22 produkter
You & Me
A Novel
E-bok, 2012
68 kr
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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 …
Typical
Stories
E-bok, 2013
25 kr
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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 …
Hologram
A Novel
E-bok, 2014
25 kr
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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 …
Aliens of Affection
Stories
E-bok, 2013
25 kr
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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 …
Edisto Revisited
A Novel
E-bok, 2013
17 kr
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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, …
Woman Named Drown
A Novel
E-bok, 2013
25 kr
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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 sharkOn the brink of earning his doctorate in chemistry, the unnamed narrator decides to chuck …
Aliens of Affection
Stories
E-bok, 2014
25 kr
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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 …
Edisto Revisited
A Novel
E-bok, 2014
17 kr
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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, …
Typical
Stories
E-bok, 2014
25 kr
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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 …
Woman Named Drown
A Novel
E-bok, 2014
25 kr
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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 sharkOn the brink of earning his doctorate in chemistry, the unnamed narrator decides to chuck …
Interrogative Mood
E-bok, 2010
131 kr
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''If Duchamp or maybe Magritte wrote a novel it might look something like this remarkable little book of Padgett Powell''s: immensely readable, ingenious, witty, and ultimately important-feeling in a way you can''t quite describe but don''t need to'' Richard FordAre your emotions pure? Are your …
Edisto
E-bok, 2012
129 kr
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Simons Everson Manigault (''You say it "Simmons". I''m a rare one-m Simons'') lives with his mother, an eccentric professor known as the Duchess, on an isolated strip of South Carolina coast. Convinced that her son can be a writer of genius, the Duchess has immersed Simons in the literary classics …
You & I
E-bok, 2011
131 kr
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''When asked for a list of the best young American writers, I invariably put Padgett Powell at the top'' Saul BellowThis book is a conversation, apparently on a porch, between two men who may be difficult to grasp. They move together in aimless convenient debate, coming to conclusions that don''t …
Imperative Mood
E-bok, 2012
33 kr
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Whatever floats your boat, go ahead and float it. Do not have large untenable quantities of despair. Do not go to parades. When you feed orphaned wild animals, do not expect them to make it. Be forewarned. Be careful that your genitals do not show outside the strict confines of your underwear. …
Roman in Fragen
E-bok, 2012
102 kr
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»Sind Ihre Gefühle rein? Wie stehen Sie zur Kartoffel? Sollte es immer noch Konstantinopel heißen? Haben Kinder Ihrer Ansicht nach einen Geruch? Wenn Sie jetzt welchen hätten, würden Sie Hundekuchen essen? Sind Sie glücklich? Ist Ihnen klar, warum ich Ihnen all diese Fragen stelle?« Auch ohne zu …
