Author: John HawkesPublisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780140092837
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A Western tall tale and a psychological thriller of stunning insight and depth, this is Hawkes' most ambitious work ever.
Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade
Author: John HawkesPublisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780140092837
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A Western tall tale and a psychological thriller of stunning insight and depth, this is Hawkes' most ambitious work ever.
Adventures in the Alaskan Skin
Author: John HawkesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780147780300
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade
Author: John HawkesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780701130404
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Een jonge vrouw, opgevoed door haar vader in een klein stadje in Alaska, wordt na zijn dood in haar dromen door hem achtervolgd.
Alaska (provisional Title)
Author: Dominique GarnierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Humors of Blood & Skin
Author: John HawkesPublisher: New York : New Directions
ISBN: 9780811209076
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The author shares selections from his novels and stories, and describes the background of each work
Adventures in the Skin Trade
Author: Dylan ThomasPublisher: [Norfolk] Conn : New Directions
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Second Skin
Author: John HawkesPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811222608
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
"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 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 suicides of his father, wife and daughter, the murder of his son-in-law, a brutal rape, and subsequent mutiny at sea. The present: caring for his granddaughter on a "northern" island where he works as an artificial inseminator of cows, and attempts to reclaim the innocence with which he faced the tragedies of his earlier life. Combining unflinching descriptions of suffering with his sense of beauty, Hawkes is a master of nimble and sensuous prose who makes the awful and mundane fantastic, and occasionally makes the fantastic surreal.
Innocence, Power, and the Novels of John Hawkes
Author: Rita FerrariPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812233414
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
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.
Facing Texts
Author: Heide ZieglerPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822399776
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
This selection of fiction by many of America's best writers, each coupled with a distinguished critic's response, is designed to defy the chronological secondariness of critical interpretation. During the creation of this book the majority of the contributions, chosen by the writers themselves, were as yet unpublished, providing an unmediated encounter between author and critic. Every reader extends what editors, authors, and critics have begun by adding to the imaginary space in which all texts may be woven together. This process serves as metaphor for the changing nature of any latter-day encounter with one's own literary tradition. The interfacing of texts not only illuminates the fiction, and the relationship of fiction to critics, but also informs our conceptions of text, criticism, and fiction itself.
The Lime Twig
Author: John HawkesPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200653
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
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 . . . ."