John Hawkes

• Dec-1949
• / General Fiction
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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 o...

• Jun-1961
• / Horror
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An English horse race, the Golden Bowl at Aldington, provides the background for John Hawkes' exciting novel, The Lime Twig, which tells of an ingenious plot to steal and race a horse under a false name. But it would be unfair to the reader to reveal...

• Nov-1967
• / Christian
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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. The Beetle Leg, John Hawkes's second full-length novel, was first published...

• 1976
• / Suspense
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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 n...

• Mar-1976
• / General Fiction
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An exceptionally brilliant novel from “our most interesting writer” (Flannery O’Connor) Travesty is John Hawkes’s most extreme vision of eroticism and comic terror. In the south of France, an elegant sports car is speeding through the ni...

• 1977
• / Literary
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• Jan-1981
• / Literary
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Set in an imaginary European city, "The Passion Artist" takes us into the dream-like interior world of Konrad Vost, a middle-aged widower grieving for his dead wife, devoted to his schoolgirl daughter, and obsessed with the memory and the fate of ...

• Oct-1984
• / General Fiction
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• 1985
• / General Fiction
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Sunny Deauville's duties as proprietor of the best brothel in Alaska and her lusty, guilt-free life are counterbalanced by her obsession with finding her father, lost years before in the backcountry wilds...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1993
• / Erotica
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• Aug-1993
• / General Fiction
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“A moving book, a warm, cranky book, in the end a book full of love of the horse.” -- The Washington Post
 
In his most engaging, accessible novel to date, John Hawkes brings to life the sad, stately voice of Old Horse, nee Sweet William...

• Jun-1996
• / General Fiction
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Asleep by a lily pond just before World War I, a young French child swallows a frog that not only survives within him but becomes a companion for life, sharing his physical and psychological pain but also giving him a strange sort of power over other...

• Sep-1997
• / General Fiction
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Dervla O'Shannon, an Irish girl being raised in grim circumstances at a home for foundling girls, begins a picaresque journey toward fulfillment after meeting old Corporal Stack, a World War I veteran as discontented as Dervla. Reprint....

• Apr-1998
• / General Fiction
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No synopsis or comparison can convey the novel's lyric comedy or, indeed, its sinister power -- sinister because of the strength of will Cyril exerts over his wife, his mistress, his wife's reluctant lover; lyric, since he is also a “sex-singer" in...

• Mar-2000
• / Literary
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Fiction. Out of his experiences as a wartime ambulance driver in Italy (and Germany), John Hawkes distilled two haunting, obsessive short novels set in a landscape partly Italian and partly the author's own brand of myth and fantasy. THE OWL and THE ...

• / Literary
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"John Hawkes is an extraordinary writer. I have always admired his books. They should be more widely read." -- Saul Bellow Skipper, an ex-World War II naval Lieutenant and the narrator of Second Skin, interweaves past and present -- what he refers to...

• / General Fiction
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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 b...