/ I'm in Bluffton on a truancy spree, cutting, we call it, but all you do is walk off the unfenced yard during recess, where three hundred hunched-over kids are shooting marbles. I can't shoot a marble with a slingshot, so I split and go into Dresser's Rexall for a Coke or something, expressly forbidden me by the Doctor because it makes me hyper, she says, but should I drink milk all my life instead or go on now to house bourbon? That is not the point.
For my family
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Published in 1984 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Edisto is an area of the South Carlinian coast. Some places
in this novel are fictional. Those that are real do not
necessarily correspong to geography.
18 West 18th Street, New York 10011
Copyright 1983, 1984 by Padgett Powell
All rights reserved
Distributed in Canada by Douglas & McIntyre Ltd.
Printed in the United States of America
Published in 1984 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
This paperback edition, 2009
Portions of this novel appeared in The New Yorker
Designed by Cynthia Krupat
www.fsgbooks.com
Edisto is an area of the South Carlinian coast. Some places
in this novel are fictional. Those that are real do not
necessarily correspong to geography.
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