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 shark On the brink of earning his doctorate in chemistry, the unnamed narrator decides to chuck i
A Woman Named Drown
โ Scribed by Powell, Padgett
- Book ID
- 107484104
- Publisher
- Henry Holt & Co
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 267 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781480441620
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โฆ Synopsis
Powell's second novel takes its narrator on a quiet romp of seeming dissipation through the South--from Knoxville, Tennessee, to remote parts of Florida and his home in Lafayette, Louisiana. ''Extravagantly comic.''--Time.
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