First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Fine in a�near fine jacket. A clean tight copy, with publisher's price intact on front jacket flap. Small remainder mark to edge. Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Small closed tears to front cover of jacket. F4300.

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Title: The Houses of Children (First Edition)
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, New York
Publication Date: 1987
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1555840434
ISBN 13: 9781555840433
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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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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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
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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