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ISBN-10: 1564780937
ISBN-13: 9781564780935
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Publish Date: 06/01/1996
Dimensions: 8.50" L, 5.53" W, 0.94" H

Island People

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Overview

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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"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"

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Details

ISBN-10: 1564780937
ISBN-13: 9781564780935
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Publish Date: 06/01/1996
Dimensions: 8.50" L, 5.53" W, 0.94" H
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