Too Much Flesh and Jabez - Paperback

FormatBook

Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9780916583217

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by Coleman Dowell (Author)

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.

Number of Pages: 151

Dimensions: 0.49 x 8.6 x 5.48 IN

Publication Date: April 01, 1987

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