The Houses of Children
-- 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...
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-- 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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781564782571 (1564782573)
ASIN: 1564782573
Publish date: September 1st 2000
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Pages no: 199
Edition language: English
In a scene from one of the stories a visiting aunt waits to see her nephew in a mental hospital, this sentence: “She got to the hospital early and waited for Johnny in the shabby room with the coverless magazines and the family groups who seemed, like the magazines, to have been badly used and left...
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