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  Edisto (FSG Classics) (Paperback) By (author) Padgett Powell

  

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  Short Description for EdistoSimons Everson Manigault ('You say it 'Simmons.' I'm a rare one-m Simons") lives with his mother, an eccentric professor (known as the Duchess), on an isolated and undeveloped strip of South Carolina coast. Convinced that her son can be a writer of genius, the Duchess has immersed Simons in the literary classics since birth ("Like some kids swat mobiles, I was to thumb pages") and has given him fr...
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  • Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
  • Published: 03 February 2009
  • Format: Paperback 183 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780374531683 ISBN 10: 0374531684
  • Sales rank: 234,515

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• Simons Everson Manigault ('You say it 'Simmons.' I'm a rare one-m Simons") lives with his mother, an eccentric professor (known as the Duchess), on an isolated and undeveloped strip of South Carolina coast. Convinced that her son can be a writer of genius, the Duchess has immersed Simons in the literary classics since birth ("Like some kids swat mobiles, I was to thumb pages") and has given him free rein to gather material in such spots as the Baby Grand, a local black nightclub. ("It was an assignment. I'm supposed to write. I'm supposed get good at it.")