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Too Much Flesh and Jabez
Coleman Dowell
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Description for Too Much Flesh and Jabez
Paperback. Num Pages: 151 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 454.
Coleman Dowell's "Southern Gothic" is a novel about sexual repression. Miss Ethel, a spinster school teacher, decides to write what she calls a "perverse tale" about one of her former students, a Kentucky farmer named Jim Cummins. Endowing him with unnaturally large genitals, she spins a tawdry tale of his frustrated relationship with his petite wife. Expressing all the bitterness of "an old woman's revenge," Miss Ethel's tale is nonetheless a sensitive depiction of rural life in the early years of World War II.Dowell's masterful use of the tale-within-a-tale to explore psychological states makes "Too Much Flesh and Jabez" a ... Read more
Coleman Dowell's "Southern Gothic" is a novel about sexual repression. Miss Ethel, a spinster school teacher, decides to write what she calls a "perverse tale" about one of her former students, a Kentucky farmer named Jim Cummins. Endowing him with unnaturally large genitals, she spins a tawdry tale of his frustrated relationship with his petite wife. Expressing all the bitterness of "an old woman's revenge," Miss Ethel's tale is nonetheless a sensitive depiction of rural life in the early years of World War II.Dowell's masterful use of the tale-within-a-tale to explore psychological states makes "Too Much Flesh and Jabez" a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
151
Condition
New
Number of Pages
151
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9780916583217
SKU
V9780916583217
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Reviews for Too Much Flesh and Jabez
Dowell writes with a superb power of constant implicationalways careful, always energetic, always suggestive.
Thom Gunn, Times Literary Supplement This novel is a meticulously and subtly composed tour de force on the imagination.
Gilbert Sorrentino, New York Times Book Review
Thom Gunn, Times Literary Supplement This novel is a meticulously and subtly composed tour de force on the imagination.
Gilbert Sorrentino, New York Times Book Review