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William Goyen (1915–1983)

Autor(a) de The House of Breath

39+ Works 476 Membros 1 Review 6 Favorited

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Obras por William Goyen

The House of Breath (1950) 132 exemplares
Arcadio (1983) 86 exemplares
Come the Restorer (1974) 35 exemplares
In a Farther Country (1955) 17 exemplares
A Book of Jesus (1973) 16 exemplares
The fair sister : a novel (1963) 5 exemplares
Savata My Fair Sister (1963) 3 exemplares

Associated Works

American Gothic Tales (1996) — Contribuidor — 457 exemplares
Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic (1990) — Contribuidor — 152 exemplares
The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories (1991) — Contribuidor — 75 exemplares
Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories (1999) — Contribuidor — 64 exemplares
An Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories (1989) — Contribuidor — 45 exemplares
Dixie Ghosts (1988) — Contribuidor — 40 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 1964 (1964) — Contribuidor — 25 exemplares
South by Southwest: 24 Stories from Modern Texas (1986) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 1961 (1961) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
Best modern short stories (1965) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 1951 (1951) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1915-04-24
Data de falecimento
1983-08-30
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA (birth)
Locais de residência
Trinity, Texas, USA (birth)
Relações
Roberts, Doris (wife)

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More like a poetic apparition, narrated in earthy Spanglish by a Chicana hermaphrodite squatting in the dry rut of an East Texas riverbed beneath a crumbling railroad trestle. Arcadio was raised in a brothel above a Chinese restaurant in Memphis, then indentured to a roving freakshow-carnival after her father disappeared. S/he has stories to tell, and all the torments of Man & Woman in one body. His mother charmed a rattlesnake with “La Paloma,” and killed a man mid-coitus. A younger half-brother died of hunger. A paralyzed man took his first steps in 38 years and was arrested for jaywalking. Jesucristo was a red-headed woman. Rathawks and moaning bullfrogs and a lock of hair from a dead girl in a tobacco pouch. A dwarf burned to ashes in a posture of prayer, after a carnival fire set by a hairlipped lion, still on the loose. A man spoke so many foul words that the Lord one day just twisted his mouth around under his ear and left it that way. Everyone has at one time or another escaped from a Missoura jail. Everything has a machine in it except God. The Devil always whispers in our left ear. “What kind of salvation keeps me from killing my father?” with crazy orange wine eyes and a curse between his legs. Arcadio he carries his stump-kneed father out of town on his back until the old man throws himself to the ground, tears off his clothes in a whirl of red dust and clubs himself to death with his infernal member. It may be a Christian parable, but I don’t know. Is everyone forgiven?… (mais)
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HectorSwell | May 31, 2015 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
39
Also by
12
Membros
476
Popularidade
#51,804
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
1
ISBN
62
Línguas
4
Marcado como favorito
6

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