The houses of children: Collected stories - Hardcover
Synopsis
-- First paperback edition.
-- A ghost story unfolds simultaneously across three centuries and two continents; a young cannibal details the daily life and appetites of his clan; a man slowly, and without pain or blood, loses his limbs, his tongue, and his sight. A collection culled from Coleman Dowell's entire career, The Houses of Children displays the wide range of his talent in a dense and beautifully stylistic prose.
-- Coleman Dowell is the author of five novels including Island People and Mrs. October Was Here, and a memoir, A Star-Bright Lie, which won an Editor's Choice Lambda Literary Award.
-- First published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1987).
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About the Author
Born in Kentucky in 1925, Robert Coleman Dowell is one of the great post-war US writers. He is the author of five novels including One of the Children is Crying, Island People, and Mrs October Was Here.
From Library Journal
Before his suicide in 1985, Dowell assembled these 13 stories, peopled by such unusual main characters as a cannibal boy, a fieldmouse, ghosts, and a hunchbacked grandmother. The stories demand close reading and explication, for often Dowell appears creatively isolated within his own chimerical realm. Thus, in "I Envy You Your Great Adventure," a main character loses his arms, legs, and tongue without any justification. Yet Dowell's extraordinary fictional inventions can exude a mesmeric fascination. Recommended for larger fiction collections. Glenn O. Carey, English Dept., Eastern Kentucky Univ., Richmond
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- PublisherWeidenfeld & Nicolson
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 1555840434
- ISBN 13 9781555840433
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages199
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