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Too Much Flesh and Jabez

Too Much Flesh and Jabez

Dowell, Coleman

Paperback

Series: American Literature

General GLBTQIA Fiction

Publisher Price: $14.95

ISBN10: 091658321X
ISBN13: 9780916583217
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr
Published: Apr 1 1987
Pages: 151
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.48 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

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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