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House of Images
From the pen of the GUGGENHEIM author of the sensuous The Devil Flower and the controversial Philippines Free Press prize story “The Doll” comes this novel of poignant experiences generated by war, not as fought by invaders and defenders of a town, but by people for and against one another who lived through it all.
House of Images strips a family of its hypocrisies, takes the wraps off a town’s sores and agonies, exposes a people’s pseudo-heroism as well as their genuine nobility in facing exigencies for survival—even as it indoctrinates a boy sexually and spiritually into manhood and prepares him for a future built on the ruins of a romantic past—with candor, quiet humor, and compassionate understanding of humanity’s strengths and weaknesses.
House of Images strips a family of its hypocrisies, takes the wraps off a town’s sores and agonies, exposes a people’s pseudo-heroism as well as their genuine nobility in facing exigencies for survival—even as it indoctrinates a boy sexually and spiritually into manhood and prepares him for a future built on the ruins of a romantic past—with candor, quiet humor, and compassionate understanding of humanity’s strengths and weaknesses.
207 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1983
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