A Woman Named Drown - Padgett Powell

✍ Powell, Padgett 📂 Fiction 📅 1987 🏛 Henry Holt & Co 🌐 English ⚖ 267 KB

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. \*\*

A Woman Named Drown

📂 Standards 📅 2014 🏛 Open Road Media 🌐 English ⚖ 4 MB

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 Damaris

✍ Oke, Janette 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Baker Publishing Group 🌐 English ⚖ 195 KB

Will she ever discover the story behind her unusual name? Fifteen-year-old Damaris can no longer stay on her family's farm and endure her father's drunken rages. With the help of her heartbroken mother, Damaris makes her escape, taking along two family treasures: her grandmother's lacy golden brooc

A Woman Named Damaris

✍ Oke, Janette 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Baker Publishing Group 🌐 English ⚖ 165 KB

Will she ever discover the story behind her unusual name? Fifteen-year-old Damaris can no longer stay on her family's farm and endure her father's drunken rages. With the help of her heartbroken mother, Damaris makes her escape, taking along two family treasures: her grandmother's lacy golden brooc

A Woman Named Damaris

✍ Oke, Janette 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Baker Publishing Group 🌐 English ⚖ 139 KB

Will she ever discover the story behind her unusual name? Fifteen-year-old Damaris can no longer stay on her family's farm and endure her father's drunken rages. With the help of her heartbroken mother, Damaris makes her escape, taking along two family treasures: her grandmother's lacy golden brooc

A Woman Named Damaris

✍ Oke, Janette 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Baker Publishing Group 🌐 English ⚖ 140 KB

Will she ever discover the story behind her unusual name? Fifteen-year-old Damaris can no longer stay on her family's farm and endure her father's drunken rages. With the help of her heartbroken mother, Damaris makes her escape, taking along two family treasures: her grandmother's lacy golden brooc