{"product_id":"9781480441576","title":"Edisto: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Book Award: Through the eyes of a precocious twelve-year-old in a seaside South Carolina town, the world of love, sex, friendship, and betrayal blossoms\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSimons Everson Manigault is not a typical twelve-year-old boy in tiny Edisto, South Carolina\u003cb\u003e,\u003c\/b\u003e in the late 1960s. At the insistence of his challenging mother (known to local blacks as “the Duchess”), who believes her son to possess a capacity for genius, Simons immerses himself in great literature and becomes as literate and literary as any English professor.\u003cbr\u003eWhen Taurus, a soft-spoken African American stranger, moves into the cabin recently vacated by the Manigaults’ longtime maid, a friendship forms. The lonely, excitable Simons and the quiet, thoughtful Taurus, who has appointed himself Simons’s guide in the ways of the grown-up world, bond over the course of a hot Southern summer.\u003cbr\u003eBut Taurus may be playing a larger role in the Manigaults’ life than he is willing to let on—a suspicion that is confirmed when Simons’s absent father suddenly returns to the family fold. An evocative, thoughtful novel about growing up, written in language that sparkles and soars, Padgett Powell’s \u003ci\u003eEdisto\u003c\/i\u003e is the first novel of one of the most important southern writers of the last quarter century. ","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47144701264112,"sku":"9781480441576","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781480441576_p0.jpg?v=1769894040","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781480441576","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}