Edisto by Padgett Powell

192 pages first pub 1984 (view editions)

fiction literary dark emotional slow-paced
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Simons Everson Manigault ('You say it 'Simmons.' I'm a rare one-m Simons") lives with his mother, an eccentric professor (known as the Duchess), on an isolated and undeveloped strip of South Carolina coast. Convinced that her son can be a writer o...

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