A Woman Named Drown

Name: A Woman Named Drown
Author: Padgett Powell

by Padgett Powell

Disaffected woman's journey through family dysfunction and existential wandering

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Padgett Powell

American novelist and short-story writer from Florida whose experimental, comic fiction defies easy categorization. Edisto is his most celebrated novel. The Interrogative Mood, composed entirely of questions, is his most formally audacious work.

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EdistoPrecocious boy navigates South Carolina lowcountry with dark humor and moral confusion
TypicalFragmented narrative of contemporary life, love, and disappointment in modernity
Edisto RevisitedPrecocious boy returns to South Carolina lowcountry for reunion and reckoning
You and IMan's obsessive correspondence with a mysterious woman challenges his self-understanding
The Interrogative MoodExperimental novel entirely composed of questions exploring meaning and existence
Aliens of AffectionCollection of surreal stories blending Southern Gothic with contemporary alienation