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The House of Breath

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The House of Breath

By: William Goyen
Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
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Originally published in 1950, William Goyen's first novel is an elegy to childhood, memory, loss and love, celebrating boyhood in a small town in Texas.

The book is written as an ethereal address to the people and places the narrator remembers from his childhood in a small Texas town called Charity. More than a story, The House of Breath is a meditation on the nature of identity and origins, memory, and time's annihilation of life.

©1975 William Goyen (P)2010 Audible, Inc.
Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Fiction
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