Death Sleep And The Traveler

Author : John Hawkes
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811205696
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death, Sleep and the Traveler written by John Hawkes and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1975 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : John Hawkes
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811222594
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death, Sleep & the Traveler: Novel written by John Hawkes and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1975-01-17 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.”

Author : Sacvan Bercovitch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521497329
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 7, Prose Writing, 1940-1990 written by Sacvan Bercovitch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume VII of the Cambridge History of American Literature examines a broad range of American literature of the past half-century, revealing complex relations to changes in society. Christopher Bigsby discusses American dramatists from Tennessee Williams to August Wilson, showing how innovations in theatre anticipated a world of emerging countercultures and provided America with an alternative view of contemporary life. Morris Dickstein describes the condition of rebellion in fiction from 1940 to 1970, linking writers as diverse as James Baldwin and John Updike. John Burt examines writers of the American South, describing the tensions between modernization and continued entanglements with the past. Wendy Steiner examines the postmodern fictions since 1970, and shows how the questioning of artistic assumptions has broadened the canon of American literature. Finally, Cyrus Patell highlights the voices of Native American, Asian American, Chicano, gay and lesbian writers, often marginalized but here discussed within and against a broad set of national traditions.

Author : John Hawkes
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811200653
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lime Twig written by John Hawkes and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1961 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 . . . ."

Author : John Hawkes
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811222675
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cannibal: Novel written by John Hawkes and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1962-01-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cannibal was John Hawkes's first novel, published in 1949. The Cannibal was John Hawkes's first novel, published in 1949.

Author : John Hawkes
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811222357
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travesty written by John Hawkes and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 night, bearing a man, his daughter, and his best friend toward a fatal crash. As he drives, the “privileged man” justifies, in a sustained monologue, his firm opinion that willed destruction is the ultimate act of the poetic imagination. “What I have in mind is an ‘accident’ so perfectly contrived that it will be unique, spectacular and instantaneous, a physical counterpart to that vision in which it was in fact conceived.” Concerned with sex, myth, the imagination, and the absurd, Travesty is one of the most cruelly and vibrantly ironic works to be found in twentieth-century literature.

Author : John Hawkes
Publisher : New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Second Skin written by John Hawkes and published by New Directions Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1964 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 59-year-old American acquires a new family on a tropical island, while looking back on his "naked history" with his old family and its talent for death.

Author : Alison Uttley
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 168137448X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Traveller in Time written by Alison Uttley and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “superb” time travel adventure of one lonely young girl, a remarkable family, and an impossible task, set between modern and Elizabethan England (The Washington Post) "A beautiful book . . . a form of enchanting ghost story, with the ghosts drawn in with the grace of a painter on a fan." —The Observer Penelope Taberner Cameron is a solitary and a sickly child, a reader and a dreamer. Her mother, indeed, is of the opinion that the girl has grown all too attached to the products of her imagination and decides to send her away from London for a restorative dose of fresh country air. But staying at Thackers, in remote Derbyshire, Penelope is soon caught up in a new mystery, as she finds herself transported at unforeseeable intervals back and forth from modern to Elizabethan times. There she becomes part of a remarkable family that is, Penelope realizes, in terrible danger as they plot to free Mary, Queen of Scots, from the prison in which Queen Elizabeth has confined her. Penelope knows the tragic end that awaits the Scottish queen, but she can neither change the course of events nor persuade her new family of the hopelessness of their cause, which love, loyalty, and justice all compel them to embrace. Caught between present and past, Penelope is ever more torn by questions of freedom and fate. To travel in time, she discovers, is to be very much alone. And yet the slow recurrent rhythms of the natural world, beautifully captured by Alison Uttley, also speak of a greater ongoing life that transcends the passage of the years.

Author : John H. McManus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Hawkes written by John H. McManus and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Hawkes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lunar Landscapes written by John Hawkes and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: