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Available
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Publication
Dalkey Archive Press (1996), Edition: 1st Dalkey Archive Ed, Paperback, 309 pages
Description
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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Physical description
309 p.; 8.5 inches
ISBN
1564780937 / 9781564780935
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