Dowell ∗island People∗ (New Directions Book) - Hardcover

Dowell, C

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0811206041 ISBN 13: 9780811206044

Publisher: New Directions Publishing, 1976

Synopsis

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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Review:

"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"

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."?

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions Publishing
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0811206041
• ISBN 13: 9780811206044
• Binding: Hardcover