The House Of Breath.

WILLIAM GOYEN

Publication: Random House, 1950, New York

First edition. Author's first novel. Fine in lightly rubbed price-clipped dust jacket. One of A.C. Greene's Fifty Best Books On Texas. After a prolonged absence, a man returns to his family home in Chrity, a small town in Texas. The book summons up ghosts of the past to relate tales of desire, loss and melancholy that reveal the largely secret history of his family. Beautifully written.

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