Powell, Padgett

Mrs. Hollingsworth's men by Padgett Powell( file )
4 editions published between 2003 and 2011 in English and held by 118 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

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism by Mark Twain( Book )
4 editions published between 1997 and 2008 in English and held by 41 libraries worldwide
Huck tells of his adventures travelling down the Mississippi on a raft with an escaped slave, and of the many people they encounter, including a pair of swindlers and two families in a feud

Falling in love by Rick Bass( file )
1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 36 libraries worldwide
A narration of short stories previously broadcast on public radio stations

You & me : a novel by Padgett Powell( Sound Recording )
4 editions published in 2012 in English and held by 30 libraries worldwide
Powell provides a Southern send-up of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Two loquacious men sit talking on a porch. Funny and profound, daft and cogent, they argue about love and sex, how best to live and die, the merits of Miles Davis and Cadillacs and Hollywood starlets of yore, underused clichés, false truisms, and the meaning of nihilism. Together, they shoot the shit--and then they go on shooting it long after it's dead

Eine Frau mit Namen Drown by Padgett Powell( Book )
3 editions published in 1990 in German and Undetermined and held by 14 libraries worldwide

Hologram : a novel by Padgett Powell( Book )
2 editions published in 2014 in English and held by 6 libraries worldwide
A phantasmagoric dream of a novel, exploring the mind of a housewife enamored of historical personages, twisted love stories, and strange conspiraciesMrs. 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 housewife's head-men infinitely more real to her than her own husband. Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest gallops into her story, courtesy of media giant Ted Turner and two shady criminal types named Bundy

Cries for Help, Various by Padgett Powell( Book )
1 edition published in 2015 in English and held by 3 libraries worldwide
Presents a collection of short stories that cover the topics of longing, fear, work, loneliness, and cultural nostalgia

The imperative mood by Padgett Powell( file )
1 edition published in 2012 in English and held by 0 libraries worldwide
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. Learn at least three racquet games during your lifetime. In this brand new short, Padgett Powell takes the reader on a completely new kind of journey. Just as The Interrogative Mood was stubbornly memorable and persistently illuminating, The Imperative Mood is surprising, funny, sneakily cumulative, char

Edisto ; and, edisto revisited by Padgett Powell( file )
1 edition published in 2013 in English and held by 0 libraries worldwide
A special two-in-one edition of National Book Award finalist Padgett Powell's acclaimed southern novels: Edisto and Edisto Revisited In 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 and becomes as literate and literary as any English professor. When Taurus, a soft-spoken African American stranger, moves into the cabin recently vacated by the Manigaults longtime maid, a friendship forms. The lonely, excitable Simons and the quiet, thoughtful Taurus, who has appointed himself Simons & rsquo;s guide in the ways of the grown-up world, bond over the course of a hot southern summer. In Edisto Revisited, Simons Manigault is newly graduated from Clemson University, bored, unfocused, and idling his summer away at his mother's home in Edisto, South Carolina. Not yet ready to fully embrace adulthood, Simons finds himself surrendering to cynicism. To avoid sinking further into his rut, Simons embarks on a road trip through the South. After a disastrous stint as a Corpus Christi fisherman, he exits the Lone Star State, doubling back to the Louisiana bayou to spend some quality time with his former friend and mentor and his mother's ex-lover Taurus. But as even Taurus's once sought-after wisdom wears thin, Simons begins to suspect that the grass is not greener on the other side & mdash;it may be burnt, brown, and dead wherever he goes

5 stories and a piece of you & me by Padgett Powell( file )
1 edition published in 2012 in English and held by 0 libraries worldwide
A collection of 5 pieces by Padgett Powell plus an excerpt of the forthcoming You & me to be published initially as an Ecco Solo short e-book