Powell, Padgett

Edisto : a novel by Padgett Powell( Book )
15 editions published between 1982 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 1,411 libraries worldwide
About the coming of age on an undevelped strip of coast between Savannah and Charleston

The interrogative mood : a novel? by Padgett Powell( Book )
15 editions published between 2009 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 889 libraries worldwide
The acclaimed writer Padgett Powell is fascinated by what it feels like to walk through everyday life, to hear the swing and snap of American talk, to be both electrified and overwhelmed by the mad cacophony -- the "muchness"--of America. "The Interrogative Mood" is Powell's playful and profound response, a bebop solo of a book in which every sentence is a question

You & me : a novel by Padgett Powell( Book )
7 editions published between 2012 and 2013 in English and held by 750 libraries worldwide
"A scabrous, Southern send-up of WAITING FOR GODOT by the novelist Sam Lipsyte hails as "one of the few truly important American writers of our time.""

Mrs. Hollingsworth's men by Padgett Powell( Book )
3 editions published between 2000 and 2002 in English and held by 725 libraries worldwide
At her kitchen table somewhere in the South, Powell's narrator embarks on a spirited and often hilarious imagining of certain historical figures and current national preoccupations. Ostensibly writing her grocery list, Mrs. Hollingsworth most happily loses her sense of herself until her family intrudes along with two petty criminals named Oswald and Bundy

Edisto revisited : a novel by Padgett Powell( Book )
3 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 571 libraries worldwide
A literary novel on a Southern dilettante. Newly graduated architect Simons Manigault of North Carolina passes up a job for drink, literary talk and affairs with women. One day an older man shows him a home for burned-out hippies and Manigault, who narrates the tale, sees the light. By the author of Edisto

A woman named Drown by Padgett Powell( Book )
6 editions published between 1987 and 2013 in English and German and held by 563 libraries worldwide

Typical by Padgett Powell( Book )
6 editions published between 1991 and 2013 in English and held by 443 libraries worldwide

Aliens of affection : stories by Padgett Powell( Book )
3 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 364 libraries worldwide
Southern stories featuring nutty characters in search of love. Two of the protagonists are mental patients, a third was abandoned by his family, and the fourth is a woman whose quest for love leads her to seduce a 12-year-old boy

Mrs. Hollingsworth's men by Padgett Powell( Computer File )
4 editions published between 2003 and 2011 in English and held by 124 libraries worldwide
Mrs. Hollingsworth is working on her grocery list when she suddenly begins writing a series of surreal vignettes. In one, two pals roam Mississippi with a large ray gun. In another, a Confederate Civil War general rides triumphantly through town -- even though he's been dead for decades. Mrs. Hollingsworth's daughters think their mother is losing her mind, but there is a method to her madness

You & I by Padgett Powell( Book )
5 editions published between 2011 and 2013 in English and held by 114 libraries worldwide
Padgett Powell writes: 'Their conversation we may find it difficult to grasp much like they themselves. Coming to conclusions that don't conclude. To questions that have no answers. To positions that may not be finally so aimless. They disagree to agree. They are smart, not smart; fools, not fools.' Poignant, hilarious, opaque, diamond-clear, this strange little gem is sure to delight the thousands of devotees found by Powell's The Interrogative Mood. 'I'd like to see some flying dogs. Are there flying dogs? Not that I know of. Seeing some would improve my mood tremendously, though. I suspect it would. Mine too. Cheer us right up, flying dogs. Raining cats and dogs. Like to see cats bouncing off cars. Why'd they call combat air battles "dogfights"? They wanted to see flying dogs too.'