Edisto: A Novel (Open Road): novel

✍ Scribed by Powell, Padgett

• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: en-ca
• Weight: 118 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; The Assignment; An Assessment of the Stranger; A Summons at Edisto; A Question of Heredity; We See a Fight in Charleston; How He Got His Name; The Federal Oral History Program; One of My Custody Junkets; We Entertain: A Faculty Raree; On the Prevention of -- ease Only; A New Kind of Custody Junket Dawns; The End of Inquiry by Direct Methods; A Time Like Sweet Potatoes; Chemistry Never Changes; A Saturday without Cartoons; Mullet; A Vision of Snug Harbor; Photos For the Record; A Revelation of Foolery; We Take Communion; Taking Leave.;Finalist for the National Book Award: Through the eyes of a precocious twelve-year-old in a seaside South Carolina town, the world of love, sex, friendship, and betrayal blossomsSimons 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 (known to local blacks as "the Duchess"), 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 in.