{"product_id":"a-woman-named-drown-paperback","title":"A Woman Named Drown - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\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\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePadgett Powell is the author of six novels, including \u003cem\u003eEdisto\u003c\/em\u003e, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and two collections of stories. His writing has appeared in the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHarper's\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eParis Review\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as in \u003cem\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Best American Sports Writing\u003c\/em\u003e. He has received a Whiting Writers' Award, the Rome Fellowship in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He lives in Gainesville, Florida, where he teaches at MFA@FLA, the writing program of the University of Florida.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 178\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.41 x 8 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 07, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53463918313779,"sku":"9781480464216","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/FJwW14EEuO9781480464216.webp?v=1781577393","url":"https:\/\/rbangel-store.myshopify.com\/products\/a-woman-named-drown-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}