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The House of Breath

Published
Mar 1975
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General Fiction General Fiction
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208

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Goyen passes on traditional conventions of plot and character. The House of Breath is an address to the people and places the narrator remembers from his childhood in small Texas town, Charity. The novel is a meditation on the nature of identity and origins, memory, and time's annihilation of life. This is the restored version, going back to Goyen's originally published version from 1950 with an afterword from Reginald Gibbons, professor of English at Northwestern University and the former editor of TriQuarterly Magazine.

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First Edition Mar 1975 Random House ISBN 0394730534
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Oct 1986 Persea Books ISBN 0892551097
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Aug 1999 Triquarterly Books ISBN 0810150670
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Jan 1975 Random House ISBN 039449699X
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Oct 2014 Dzanc Books ISBN B00OGFE8NU
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Oct 2014 Dzanc Books ISBN 1941531180
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Mar 2010 Audible Studios ISBN B003BGEH22
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