A Woman Named Drown

by Padgett Powell

Book Overview

Hailed by Time as an "extravagantly comic" novel, A Woman Named Drown 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
On 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 148046421X
• ISBN13: 9781480464216
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media LLC
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.0"