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      Island People

      by Coleman Dowell
      Published
      Jun 1976
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      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      309
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      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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      Jun 1996 Dalkey Archive Press ISBN 1564780937
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      First Edition Jun 1976 W.W. Norton & Company ISBN 0811206041
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