My Drowning is a wonderful novel in the Southern Gothic tradition. Dark, or darker, even, than Bastard out of Carolina, the novel is also more lyrical and evocative. Grimsley is wonderful in this genre and also in fantasy. He's a genius who understands so much about how to create a story that will keep you engrossed until the very last minute/5. · Find My Drowning by Grimsley, Jim at Biblio. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. · MY DROWNING is a haunting portrait of southern poverty and abuse by one of today's most gifted writers. This atmospheric novel is the painful (yet never pandering) tale of young Ellen and a potent commentary on the impact of the home environment on self-image as well as the heritage of physical and emotional abuse.5/5(5).
My Drowning Reading Group Guide. Jim Grimsley. Want to Read. My Drowning Reading Group Guide. Want to read; 9 Currently reading; Published September by Touchstone Books. Written in English Subjects: General, Literature - Classics / Criticism. Jim Grimsley is a novelist and playwright whose first novel, Winter Birds, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and was awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the Academy of Arts and www.doorway.ru plays are regularly produced nationwide and at Atlanta's 7 Stages Theatre, where he is the writer-in-residence. My Drowning. Jim Grimsley returns to the Southern landscape evoked so powerfully in his previous award-winning novels, "Winter Birds" and "Dream Boy", to tell an unforgettable story of a woman's search for the meaning of a dream that has haunted her throughout her life.
The third novel by this PEN/Hemingway Award finalist (Dream Boy; Winter Birds) is an evocative, uncompromising account of a hardscrabble childhood in rural North Carolina that shows Grimsley to be an accomplished stylist and a complex moralist. The narrator is the aged Ellen Tote, refugee from a life of bitter privation. "When I look back. My Drowning: A Novel by Jim Grimsley. A woman looks back at her painful childhood in the rural South to solve a family mystery: “Magnificent just masterful. Jim Grimsley is the author of four previous novels, among them Winter Birds, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award; Dream Boy, winner of the GLBTF Book Award for literature; My Drowning, a Lila-Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award winner; and Comfort and Joy. He lives in Atlanta and teaches at Emory University.
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