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Lee Abbott

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Contemporary author Lee K. Abbott was born October 17, 1947, in the Panama Canal Zone. He is the son of Lee Kitteredge and Elaine Abbott. Abbott sums up his childhood by saying “I had a drunk for a mother, a general for father, and sucked my thumb until I was six” (Dictionary of Lit. ... It is said the influence of the drunk can be seen in some of Abbott’s stories, such as “Time and Fear and Somehow Love” in which an alcoholic mother writes a letter to her son attempting to explain her life and her drinking. ... ” (Abbott 91). Abbott married a bookstore manager named Pamela Jo Dennis, December 20, 1969. ... Abbott’s only attempts at novel-length work are “The Villa Narratives,” an unpublished novel that was his M. ... The later of the two Abbott claims was written for “therapeutic reasons. ... In her review she states: “Abbott writes some fulsome and fellatious prose, the kind that simply melts in your mouth, knocks your teeth down your throat…” (Quest 1). The reader of Abbott’s stories are instantly taken in, entering the world of “ The evangelist, the cowboy, the showman, the conman, the vagabond poet, the athlete, the bad-boy who will not grow up – they are all here.


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