Edisto Revisited A Novel eBook Padgett Powell
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In the sequel to Powell’s acclaimed debut, Edisto, Simons Manigault is older—if not particularly wiser—and searching for the cure to his restlessness in memory, travel, and forbidden love
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'Edisto Revisited' is a beautifully written short novel. Compelling in style, each paragraph pulls you to the next without hesitation. The storyline is less important than the style of writing - tight and perfectly phrased. Powell gives the reader an open understanding of each character. Perfectly executed. Oh, if all writers could have Powell's gifts. I loved this book!
I loved Powell's Edisto. Based on my experience with that passionate, evocative book, I was eager to get my hands on this one. What a disappointment it was -- nothing new, just a boring, uninspired rehash of old characters, some convoluted plot contrivances, and a blase gesture of pseudo-Faulknerian scandal (the hint of incest) in a final attempt to make the book interesting. I had high hopes for this book, despite having read his whiny, pitiful Woman Named Drown. After reading Edisto Revisited, I was angry at Powell for what he had done to his troubled but beloved characters from Edisto. This book is nothing more than a sad attempt to revive a flagging career. I think he has done both the characters and the readers of Edisto a disservice by writing this book at all.
We revisit one-m Simons in a similar way the first novel did back then, Simons was in transition, on the lip of puberty and in the midst of trying to figure out the larger world. This time, Simons is fresh out of school, aimless and unsure of the architecture he majored in, and still trying to figure out the larger world. With both books, there was also a transition of sorts from the old South to whatever the new one is, and this one in particular also seems to suggest these books being a transition into the new southern literature.
Whatever that is. Powell doesn't give us answers, because why should a novel present any answers? Simons is on a journey, and thus so are we.
Here's a pair of novels set at two turning points in the narrator's life. This is the second time that I've read them both, and I still have too many feelings about this one to write any semblance of a good review, so I'll just say that if you ever felt daunted by the prospect of a respectable cookie-cutter adult life, and nostalgic for the freedom of childhood, this is worth a read.
Edisto Revisited A Novel eBook Padgett Powell
Here's a pair of novels set at two turning points in the narrator's life. This is the second time that I've read them both, and I still have too many feelings about this one to write any semblance of a good review, so I'll just say that if you ever felt daunted by the prospect of a respectable cookie-cutter adult life, and nostalgic for the freedom of childhood, this is worth a read.Product details
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Edisto Revisited A Novel eBook Padgett Powell Reviews
'Edisto Revisited' is a beautifully written short novel. Compelling in style, each paragraph pulls you to the next without hesitation. The storyline is less important than the style of writing - tight and perfectly phrased. Powell gives the reader an open understanding of each character. Perfectly executed. Oh, if all writers could have Powell's gifts. I loved this book!
I loved Powell's Edisto. Based on my experience with that passionate, evocative book, I was eager to get my hands on this one. What a disappointment it was -- nothing new, just a boring, uninspired rehash of old characters, some convoluted plot contrivances, and a blase gesture of pseudo-Faulknerian scandal (the hint of incest) in a final attempt to make the book interesting. I had high hopes for this book, despite having read his whiny, pitiful Woman Named Drown. After reading Edisto Revisited, I was angry at Powell for what he had done to his troubled but beloved characters from Edisto. This book is nothing more than a sad attempt to revive a flagging career. I think he has done both the characters and the readers of Edisto a disservice by writing this book at all.
We revisit one-m Simons in a similar way the first novel did back then, Simons was in transition, on the lip of puberty and in the midst of trying to figure out the larger world. This time, Simons is fresh out of school, aimless and unsure of the architecture he majored in, and still trying to figure out the larger world. With both books, there was also a transition of sorts from the old South to whatever the new one is, and this one in particular also seems to suggest these books being a transition into the new southern literature.
Whatever that is. Powell doesn't give us answers, because why should a novel present any answers? Simons is on a journey, and thus so are we.
Here's a pair of novels set at two turning points in the narrator's life. This is the second time that I've read them both, and I still have too many feelings about this one to write any semblance of a good review, so I'll just say that if you ever felt daunted by the prospect of a respectable cookie-cutter adult life, and nostalgic for the freedom of childhood, this is worth a read.
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