{"product_id":"a-woman-named-drown-paperback","title":"A Woman Named Drown - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePadgett Powell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHailed by \u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003eas an \"extravagantly comic\" novel, \u003ci\u003eA Woman Named Drown\u003c\/i\u003e is a wild and strange journey through America's South that follows a young PhD dropout who falls in with an amateur actress-cum-pool shark\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the brink of earning his doctorate in chemistry, the unnamed narrator decides to chuck it all away in favor of real life. So begins an odd pilgrimage through the American South. In Tennessee, our hero is bewitched by an older, gin-swilling, pool-playing sometimes-actress who claims to have recently starred in a theatrical production about a \"woman named Drown.\" He moves in with her and just as quickly begins encountering her strange compatriots. Before he knows it, they're heading farther south together--to Florida--where the data that the dropout scientist is collecting from life's laboratory are about to get quite contradictory.\u003cbr\u003eRichly influenced by offbeat literary giant Donald Barthelme, Padgett Powell's \u003ci\u003eA Woman Named Drown \u003c\/i\u003eoffers readers a smorgasbord of literary strangeness--a surreal series of adventures in which nothing much--and yet everything--happens at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePadgett Powell is the author of six novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Interrogative Mood\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eYou \u0026amp; Me\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEdisto\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the National Book Award; and three story collections. His writing has appeared in the\u003ci\u003e New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Harper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Little Star\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and he is the recipient of the Rome Fellowship in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the Whiting Writers' Award and the James Tait Black Prize in fiction, the UK's oldest literary award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 178\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.41 x 8 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 07, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760680075552,"sku":"9781480464216","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9846f67078daf1efcbe966c6c288ec15.webp?v=1780186687","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-woman-named-drown-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}