Fever Vision The Life and Works of Coleman Dowell |
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| Author:
| Hayworth, Eugene |
| Preface by:
| White, Edmund |
| Series title: | Scholarly Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-56478-457-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2007 |
| Publisher: | Deep Vellum Publishing
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| Imprint: | Dalkey Archive Press |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $48.95 |
Book Description:
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From his birth in rural Kentucky during the Great Depression to his suicide in Manhattan in 1985, Coleman Dowell played many roles. He was a songwriter and lyricist for television. He was a model. He was a Broadway playwright. He served in the U.S. Army, both abroad and at home. And most notably, he was the author of novels that Edmund White, among others, has called "masterpieces." But Dowell was deeply troubled by a depression that hung over him his entire life. Pegged as both a...
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From his birth in rural Kentucky during the Great Depression to his suicide in Manhattan in 1985, Coleman Dowell played many roles. He was a songwriter and lyricist for television. He was a model. He was a Broadway playwright. He served in the U.S. Army, both abroad and at home. And most notably, he was the author of novels that Edmund White, among others, has called "masterpieces." But Dowell was deeply troubled by a depression that hung over him his entire life. Pegged as both a Southern writer and a gay writer, he loathed such categorization, preferring to be judged only by his work. Fever Vision describes one of the most tormented, talented, and inventive writers of recent American literature, and shows how his eventful life contributed to the making of his incredible art.