Island People

Häftad, Engelska, 1996

Del i serien American Literature (Dalkey Archive)

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Beskrivning

In this complex novel, a gay man who has fled the violence of the city for an island retreat spends his time keeping a journal and writing stories. He invents a female alter-ego who haunts him, as does the ghost of the murderer who occupied his house in the 19th century; ultimately these hauntings are manifestations of his own psychic disintegration. Considered by many to be Dowell’s finest achievement, Island People conveys the fragmentation that results from prolonged isolation.

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Utgivningsdatum:1996-07-18
Mått:140 x 215 x 23 mm
Vikt:439 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:American Literature (Dalkey Archive)
Antal sidor:309
Förlag:Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN:9781564780935

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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.

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"Inside the book, the reader encounters teeming, charged emotions, dark and active with pain. Coleman Dowell... has evidenced courage and invention in creating a work of art so original and difficult as to be alive to baffling and baffled perceptions." -- Edmund White, New York Times "The kind of novel that can change a reader's life." -- Bradford Morrow, Voice Literary Supplement "This is a novel to take time over and to savor for its psychological insight and melancholia." -- Gay Times