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Island People
Coleman Dowell
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Description for Island People
Paperback. Num Pages: 309 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 24. Weight in Grams: 454.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
309
Condition
New
Number of Pages
309
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564780935
SKU
V9781564780935
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Ref
99-15
About Coleman Dowell
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.
Reviews for Island People
"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 ... Read more
Edmund White, New York Times "The kind of novel that can change a reader's life."
Bradford Morrow, Voice ... Read more