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Half a look of Cain
a fantastical narrative
By Goyen, William & Gibbons, Reginald
- ISBN
- 978-0-81015-031-7
- Publisher
- Evanston, Ill. : TriQuarterly Books, Northwestern University Press, 1994.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 1994
Written in the 1950s, this posthumously published short novel by the author of the estimable The House of Breath is a poorly conceived, tortuously literary fabula. Curran, a lighthouse keeper on the coast of Washington, is found dead, perhaps murdered. The new keeper begins to read Curran's strange, diarylike log, which tells of hi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
