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Too Much Flesh and Jabez (American Literature)

Coleman Dowell

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Description: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 memorable achievement. "This story has a beautiful simplicity, like a film in sepia that passes like a dream. . . . What's really proposed in Dowell's gender-shifting, acrostic narrative devices is an omnisexual, self-consuming modern consciousness." (Gary Indiana, Voice Literary Supplement 6-93) "This novel is a meticulously and subtly composed tour de force on the imagination." (Gilbert Sorrentino, New York Times Book Review 1-1-78) "The South, having produced writers like Faulkner and Flannery O'Conner, has always been the most fertile source of American romance. Coleman Dowell is very comfortably a part of this tradition." (Washington Post Book World) "Dowell writes with a superb power of constant implication�always careful, always energetic, always suggestive." (Thom Gunn, Times Literary Supplement) "Dowell's achievement is to keep such a plot on the right side of pornographic farce and construct an intelligent and highly-charged erotic tale that is near impossible to put down." (Gay Times 4-95)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Too Much Flesh and Jabez (American Literature). To get started finding Too Much Flesh and Jabez (American Literature), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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 memorable achievement. "This story has a beautiful simplicity, like a film in sepia that passes like a dream. . . . What's really proposed in Dowell's gender-shifting, acrostic narrative devices is an omnisexual, self-consuming modern consciousness." (Gary Indiana, Voice Literary Supplement 6-93) "This novel is a meticulously and subtly composed tour de force on the imagination." (Gilbert Sorrentino, New York Times Book Review 1-1-78) "The South, having produced writers like Faulkner and Flannery O'Conner, has always been the most fertile source of American romance. Coleman Dowell is very comfortably a part of this tradition." (Washington Post Book World) "Dowell writes with a superb power of constant implication�always careful, always energetic, always suggestive." (Thom Gunn, Times Literary Supplement) "Dowell's achievement is to keep such a plot on the right side of pornographic farce and construct an intelligent and highly-charged erotic tale that is near impossible to put down." (Gay Times 4-95)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Too Much Flesh and Jabez (American Literature). To get started finding Too Much Flesh and Jabez (American Literature), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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