Author: Stanley Trachtenberg

Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 248

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Hawkes (b. 1925) began writing in 1949 and has continued to publish lyrical, hallucinatory novels that reject the conventional elements of plot, character and setting. In this comprehensive collection of essays on Hawkes, a sizable gathering of early reviews and a broad selection of more current scholarship document critical reaction to The beetle leg (1951), The bloodoranges (1971), Death, sleep and the traveler (1974), his latest novel, Whistlejacket, (1989) and others. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR