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The House of Breath

by William Goyen · 1949

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Readers can now rediscover one of William Goyen's most important works in this restoration of the original text. The House of Breatheschews traditional conventions of plot and character presentation. The book is written as an ethereal address to the people and places the narrator remembers from his childhood in a small Texas town. More than a story, it is a meditation on the nature of identity, origins, and memory.

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Setting
1940s1940sMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
Subject
biographybiographyMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 191 pages

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