Half a Look of Cain: A Fantastical Narrative by William Goyen - 1998-09-30

Paperback / softback. New. "I was twenty when I followed away from my town a trapeze family, aerialists, a group of beautiful winged people, mother, father, son and daughter. They were the Ishbels." Chris, whose leg is injured, and his lover Stella, with whom he lives in a ruined, abandoned house; Chris's male nurse; Marvello the circus aerialist; a lighthouse keeper; a flagpole sitter in small-town America - these are the creatures of William Goyen's visionary fable of love, lust, and loneliness. Half a Look of Cain: A Fantastical Narrative was written in the 1950s and early 1960s, and is now being published for the first time. Part fable and part rhapsodic exploration of desire and loss, Half a Look of Cain bears Goyen's unmistakable artistic signature on every page. Too far ahead of its time in its swirling visionary structure, this novel was rejected by Goyen's first publisher as not sufficiently commercial and remained unpublished despite extensive revisions.… Read More

Triquarterly Books, 1998. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 136 pages. 9.00x5.50x0.50 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

TriQuarterly. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!