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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.

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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