Too Much Flesh and Jabez

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By Coleman Dowell

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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.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:091658321X

ISBN13:9780916583217

Release Date:April 1987

Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press

Length:151 Pages

Weight:0.46 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.6"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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