Trick or Treat | Padgett Powell Overview
In the following essay, the critic gives an overview of Padgett Powell’s work.
Padgett Powell burst onto the literary scene in 1984 with his first novel, Edisto. A college chemistry major turned day-laborer and roofer, Powell nurtured his literary aspirations by reading American novelist William Faulkner’s works in his spare time and eventually enrolled in the University of Houston’s creative writing graduate program. In the words of Time critic R. Z. Sheppard, Edisto, which was adapted from Powell’s master’s thesis, showed that its author had ‘‘all the literary equipment for a new career: a peeled eye, a tuning-fork ear, and an...
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