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<p>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.<BR><p> "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)<BR> <p> "The kind of novel that can change a reader's life." (Bradford Morrow, Voice Literary Supplement)<BR> <p> "Island People attains a level of prose writing which is hardly distinguishable from a long, marvelously sustained narrative poem. I suspect that it is a work in a genre of his own creation . . . moreover, it demonstrates how naturally a work of art can be both pure and sensual, both richly human and f

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Author

Dowell, Coleman

Publisher

Dalkey Archive Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9781564780935

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Reference

Rating

3.94 / 5 (45 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14