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| Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men |
Nominated ISBN: 0618071687 |
Find out more about the author on the following websites: Read
an excerpt from Mrs. Holingsworths Men
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| Padgett Powell | ||
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Richland County Public Library, Columbia, U.S.A Tucson-Pima
Public Library, Tucson, U.S.A |
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ABOUT THE
BOOK
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At her kitchen table
somewhere in the South, the narrator embarks on an imagining of certain
historical figures and current national preoccupations. Ostensibly writing
her grocery list, Mrs. Hollingsworth most happily loses her sense of herself.
Her list becomes a discovery of the things she has and those she lacks,
including men, even her own husband. Mrs. Hollingsworth begins her list by imagining a lost-love story in which she is playful with and disdainful of the conventions of Southern literature. Soon tiring of that, she decides to turn up her imagination. For reasons unclear to her, the Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest, an icon of the Lost Cause, rides into her tired lost-love story. He appears as a hologram created by a media giant, Roopit Mogul, who aims to find the real New Southerner, in a man who can recognise General Forrest's image. Into this surreal atmosphere enter Mrs. Hollingsworth's all too real daughters, the forgotten husband, Mr. and Mrs. Mogul, the boys of the neighbourhood, and petty criminals named Osward and Bundy. Within this narrative collage, strong tenderness arises, with accounts of genuine lost love, both familial and wholly romantic. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Padgett
Powell has
received the Priz de Rome of the American Academy of Arts and Letters,
a Whiting Writer's Award, and a nomination for the National Book Award.
He is also the author of the novels Edisto, A Woman
Named Drown, and Edisto Revisited and of two collections
of stories. He lives with his wife and children in Florida, U.S where
he was born and now teaches.
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