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The Lime Twig

Author: John Hawkes

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1961

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780811200653

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, the tale is, on one level, comparable to a Graham Greene thriller; on another, it explores a group of people, their relationships fears, and loves. For as Leslie A. Fiedler says in his introduction, "John Hawkes.. . makes terror rather than love the center of his work, knowing all the while, of course, that there can be no terror without the hope for love and love's defeat . . . ."

Second Skin

Author: Cowgirlie Publishing

Publisher:

Published: 2010-03-01

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 9780976391517

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The Cannibal: A Novel

Author: John Hawkes

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1962-01-17

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 0811222675

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The Cannibal was John Hawkes's first novel, published in 1949. "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 mankind within a context of fantasy.... Nowhere has the nightmare of human terror and the deracinated sensibility been more consciously analyzed than in The Cannibal. Yet one is aware throughout that such analysis proceeds only in terms of a resolutely committed humanism." - Hayden Carruth

Death, Sleep & the Traveler: Novel

Author: John Hawkes

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1975-01-17

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 0811222594

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Death, Sleep & The Traveler is about a middle-aged Dutchman, his dissolving marriage, his involvement in two sexual triangles, his obsession with the murder he is accused of having committed on a pleasure cruise. The author of seven full-length novels, several plays, and numerous short fictions, John Hawkes over the course of two and a half decades has won international acclaim. Death, Sleep & The Traveler is about a middle-aged Dutchman, his dissolving marriage, his involvement in two sexual triangles, his obsession with the murder he is accused of having committed on a pleasure cruise. “It is an exceptionally concise and beautiful work,” writes the novelist-critic Jonathan Baumbach, “delicate, erotic, dreamlike—in all, a luminous novel by the richest prose stylist in American letters since Faulkner.”

Travesty

Author: John Hawkes

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9780811206402

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In the south of France, an elegant sportscar is speeding through the night, bearing a man, his daughter, and his best friend toward a fatal crash. As he drives, the "privileged man" justifies, in sustained monologue, his firm persuasion that willed destruction is the ultimate act of the poetic imagination.

John Hawkes on His Novels

Author: John Hawkes

Publisher:

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 13

ISBN-13:

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The Beetle Leg

Author: John Hawkes

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1951

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9780811200622

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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.

Innocence, Power, and the Novels of John Hawkes

Author: Rita Ferrari

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 1996-08-29

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9780812233414

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For over forty years, John Hawkes has created fictions remarkable for their stylistic beauty and narrative experimentation. Rita Ferrari's Innocence, Power, and the Novels of John Hawkes is an unprecedented exploration of Hawkes's sixteen novels and novellas.