{"product_id":"too-much-flesh-and-jabez","title":"Too Much Flesh and Jabez","description":"Coleman Dowell's \"Southern Gothic\" is a novel about sexual repression. Miss Ethel, a spinster school teacher, decides to write what she calls a \"perverse tale\" about one of her former students, a Kentucky farmer named Jim Cummins. Endowing him with unnaturally large genitals, she spins a tawdry tale of his frustrated relationship with his petite wife. Expressing all the bitterness of \"an old woman's revenge,\" Miss Ethel's tale is nonetheless a sensitive depiction of rural life in the early years of World War II.Dowell's masterful use of the tale-within-a-tale to explore psychological states makes \"Too Much Flesh and Jabez\" a memorable achievement.","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54228956414296,"sku":"9780916583217","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780916583217_68307c5b-c2bb-4f3c-b290-ec8bd42066a1.jpg?v=1765284459","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/too-much-flesh-and-jabez","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}