Too Much Flesh and Jabez

by Coleman Dowell

Book 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 091658321X
• ISBN13: 9780916583217
• Release Date: April 1987
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 151 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

too much flesh and jabez

good book. read it after i read gilbert sorrentino's piece on it from "Something Said".