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Too Much Flesh and Jabez
Overview
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.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780916583217
- ISBN-10: 091658321X
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Publish Date: April 1987
- Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.48 x 0.49 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.47 pounds
- Page Count: 151
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