Edisto

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Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480441576

<DIV><DIV><b>Finalist for the National Book Award: Through the eyes of a precocious twelve-year-old in a seaside South Carolina town, the world of love, sex, friendship, and betrayal blossoms</b></div><DIV></div><DIV><BR>Simons Everson Manigault is not a typical twelve-year-old boy in tiny Edisto, South Carolina<b>,</b> in the late 1960s. At the insistence of his challenging mother (known to local blacks as &ldquo;the Duchess&rdquo;), who believes her son to possess a capacity for genius, Simons immerses himself in great literature and becomes as literate and literary as any English professor.</div><DIV><BR>When Taurus, a soft-spoken African American stranger, moves into the cabin recently vacated by the Manigaults&rsquo; longtime maid, a friendship forms. The lonely, excitable Simons and the quiet, thoughtful Taurus, who has appointed himself Simons&rsquo;s guide in the ways of the grown-up world, bond over the course of a hot Southern summer.</div><BR>But Taurus may be playing a larger role in the Manigaults&rsquo; life than he is willing to let on&mdash;a suspicion that is confirmed when Simons&rsquo;s absent father suddenly returns to the family fold. An evocative, thoughtful novel about growing up, written in language that sparkles and soars, Padgett Powell&rsquo;s <i>Edisto</i> is the first novel of one of the most important southern writers of the last quarter century.&#160;</div>