Full disclosure: I got about 1/4 of the way in and stopped. The questions are interesting but what's the point? At least the If book allows you to think about questions and talk with others about questions. This is so much yes/no. I also hoped against hope that, like The Lovers' Dictionary by Dav...
This book was like a literary autostereogram for me. Do you know what autostereograms are? Those "Magic Eye" things where you stare at a 2D field of colors/patterns and you're supposed to be able to see a 3D image? Well, I can't see them. I stare and I stare and I can see where the 3D thing is su...
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 of genius, the Duchess has immersed Simons in the l...
my copy is a hardcover, there is no isbn number anywhere on it that i can find therefore it doesn't exist. ground control to major tom, commencing countdown engines one....i read this one in '87. padgett signed it, inside back cover, 4/21/87...he looks young there, his foot on a concrete block, a...
Collection of short stories, published in 1991, by the acclaimed author of Edisto and A Woman Named Drown.
padgett powell likes fiddling w/words throwing them together in combination rarely seen together: "a new petroleum air of virgin potential resides there, but only until the volvos and the skateboards pull in. the volvos discharge baby strollers and easy-listening fm, the skateboards the funk of ...
I entered the sweepstakes. I lost control. I became beautiful. I charmed a queen. I defied gravity. I moved mountains. I bowled. I wept, mourned, moped, and sped about town in a convertible, progressively irascing the gendarme until I was charged with exhibitionist speed. I billed my ex-wife for ...
There is another kind? Yes. There are real nightmares that are inventive and psychologically telling and entertaining to recall and that demonstrate all manner of deep-seated truth etc. That you pay people money to interpret and so forth. Right. That you never forget. Right. These I am talking ab...