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Lime Twig
Av John Hawkes
Häftad, 1996
365 kr
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Three early novels by John HawkesThis volume brings together three early novels by John Hawkes. The Lime Twig is set in the underworld of postwar London; Second Skin is a tale of suicide and new life on two mythical islands; and Travesty is a monologue on fear and eroticism that takes place during …
Lime Twig
A Novel
Av John Hawkes
Häftad, 1961
266 kr
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But it would be unfair to the reader to reveal what happens when a gang of professional crooks gets wind of the scheme and moves to muscle in on this bettors' dream of a long-odds situation. Worked out with all the meticulous detail, terror, and suspense of a nightmare, thetale is, on one level, …
Passion Artist
Av John Hawkes
Häftad, 2010
212 kr
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A classic of dark eroticism from one of the great American writers of the twentieth century.
Blood Oranges
A Novel
Av John Hawkes
Häftad, 1972
214 kr
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"Need I insist that the only enemy of the mature marriage is monogamy? That anything less than sexual multiplicity . . . is naive? That our sexual selves are merely idylers in a vast wood?" Thus the central theme of John Hawkes's widely acclaimed novel The Blood Oranges is boldly asserted by its …
Beetle Leg
A Novel
Av John Hawkes
Häftad, 1951
181 kr
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The Beetle Leg, John Hawkes's second full-length novel, was first published by New Directions in 1951. After years of underground existence, this brilliant novel is emerging as a classic of visionary writing and still remains Hawkes's only work devoted solely to American life. As a 'surrealist …
Cannibal
A Novel
Av John Hawkes
Häftad, 1962
142 kr
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"No synopsis conveys the quality of this now famous novel about an hallucinated Germany in collapse after World War II. John Hawkes, in his search for a means to transcend outworn modes of fictional realism, has discovered a a highly original technique for objectifying the perennial degradation of …
Second Skin
Av John Hawkes
Häftad, 2005
196 kr
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Skipper, an ex-World War II naval Lieutenant and the narrator of Second Skin, interweaves past and present—what he refers to as his "naked history"—in a series of episodes that tell the story of a volatile life marked by pitiful losses, as well as a more elusive, overwhelming, joy. The past: the …
Whistlejacket
Av John Hawkes
Häftad, 1997
159 kr
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While investigating his mentor's life and death, Michael, a voyeuristic fashion photographer, travels through a Dionysian landscape where sex is daydream, women and horses share the same erotic power, and perversity is the rule. An inventive mix of biography, history, erotica, and classic whodunit, …
