-- First paperback edition.
-- A ghost story unfolds simultaneously across three centuries and two
continents; a young cannibal details the daily life and appetites of his
clan; a man slowly, and without pain or blood, loses his limbs, his
tongue, and his sight. A collection culled from Coleman Dowell's entire
career, The Houses of Children displays the wide range of his talent in
a dense and beautifully stylistic prose.
-- Coleman Dowell is the author of five novels including Island People
and Mrs. October Was Here, and a memoir, A Star-Bright Lie, which won an
Editor's Choice Lambda Literary Award.
-- First published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1987).