The Houses of Children.

NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1987). First edition. 199 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Dowell was a composer, model, playwright, and writer; he committed suicide by leaping from the balcony of his building at age 60; Brad Morrow’s postscript is affectionate and moving. Blurbs by Edmund White, Ned Rorem, and Walter Abish.