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  I do not want to be remembered as a soldier. Simons Manigault, whatever else he was, was not a soldier in life. You may call him a momma’s boy. He went AWOL, following his mother, not his father—absent with opprobrious love. He deigned not the Wawer, in all its aspects. He surrendered early.

  About the Author

  Padgett Powell is the author of six novels, including The Interrogative Mood and You & Me. His novel Edisto was a finalist for the National Book Award. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Little Star, and the Paris Review, and he is the recipient of the Rome Fellowship in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the Whiting Writers’ Award. He lives in Gainesville, Florida, where he teaches writing at MFA@FLA, the writing program of the University of Florida.

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  Copyright © 1996 by Padgett Powell

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  978-1-4804-4161-3

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