The houses of children: Collected stories - Hardcover

Dowell, Coleman

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9781555840433: The houses of children: Collected stories

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555840434 ISBN 13: 9781555840433

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987

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-- 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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