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Miss Jane: A Novel
Brad Watson
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Description for Miss Jane: A Novel
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. Dimension: 210 x 140. Weight in Grams: 666.
Since his award-winning debut collection of stories, Last Days of the Dog-Men, Brad Watson has been expanding the literary traditions of the South, in work as melancholy, witty, strange, and lovely as any in America. Now, drawing on the story of his own great-aunt, Watson explores the life of Miss Jane Chisolm, born in rural, early-twentieth-century Mississippi with a genital birth defect that would stand in the way of the central uses for a woman in that time and place: sex and marriage. From the highly erotic world of nature around her to the hard tactile labor of ... Read more
Since his award-winning debut collection of stories, Last Days of the Dog-Men, Brad Watson has been expanding the literary traditions of the South, in work as melancholy, witty, strange, and lovely as any in America. Now, drawing on the story of his own great-aunt, Watson explores the life of Miss Jane Chisolm, born in rural, early-twentieth-century Mississippi with a genital birth defect that would stand in the way of the central uses for a woman in that time and place: sex and marriage. From the highly erotic world of nature around her to the hard tactile labor of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
665g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393354386
SKU
V9780393354386
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About Brad Watson
Brad Watson teaches creative writing at the University of Wyoming, Laramie. His first collection, Last Days of the Dog-Men, won the Sue Kauffman Award for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts & Letters; his first novel, The Heaven of Mercury, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and his Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives was ... Read more
Reviews for Miss Jane: A Novel
Watson infuses the story with curiosity, uncertainty, and, not unlike Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex, a certain wildness...The book plays on the tongue like an oyster-first salty, then cold-before slipping away to be consumed and digested.
Aditi Sriram - Washington Post A story worth telling even as it breaks your heart.
Amy Brady - Chicago Review of ... Read more
Aditi Sriram - Washington Post A story worth telling even as it breaks your heart.
Amy Brady - Chicago Review of ... Read more