Island People (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) - Softcover

Dowell, Coleman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564780937 ISBN 13: 9781564780935

Verlag: Dalkey Archive Press, 1996

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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"

Reseña del editor

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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• Verlag: Dalkey Archive Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1564780937
• ISBN 13: 9781564780935
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 309