my copy is a hardcover, there is no isbn number anywhere on it that i can find therefore it doesn't exist. ground control to major tom, commencing countdown engines one....i read this one in '87. padgett signed it, inside back cover, 4/21/87...he looks young there, his foot on a concrete block, a big spread of canvas covering something...maybe a work in progress?i've read this one a number of times. seems like someplace in the story, there's a situation where someone sets up a dummy tenant in one of the spare rooms where he rents. little name tag on the door. some books.back in 85, 86, thereabouts, padgett powell and donald justice came to the sanders house there on 2nd avenue by the post office, gainesville. i was hunkered in my room at the time and i heard them in the hallway. rooming house. they were checking out the storage closet where things were. i don't recall anyone ever cleaning, so there must not have been cleaning supplies in there.but i could hear padgett in the hall....i think the rafinburgh had sent them upstairs to see my door where i placed a tag in the name slot, "gettin enny"....heard padgett ponder, 'who lives here?" fodder, i imagine, that became a scene, part of the telling of 'a woman named drown'.and there seems to be a tad of a downstairs tenant here, as well...someone complaining about another who comes in the urinates on the floor. pizzes. powell has a way w/words....this one about "starting and quitting", some "warm-up starting and quitting", and more. a joy to read. i've read it a number of times.
What do You think about A Woman Named Drown (1999)?
