The houses of children: Collected stories - Hardcover

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Before his suicide in 1985, Dowell assembled these 13 stories, peopled by such unusual main characters as a cannibal boy, a fieldmouse, ghosts, and a hunchbacked grandmother. The stories demand close reading and explication, for often Dowell appears creatively isolated within his own chimerical realm. Thus, in "I Envy You Your Great Adventure," a main character loses his arms, legs, and tongue without any justification. Yet Dowell's extraordinary fictional inventions can exude a mesmeric fascination. Recommended for larger fiction collections. Glenn O. Carey, English Dept., Eastern Kentucky Univ., Richmond
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