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Sweet William: A Memoir of Old Horse
Poignant and grippingly accurate portrayal of a horse's life: This is "Black Beauty" for adults (rated "R" for violence and sexuality)! It captures eloquently the life of a thoroughbred horse from birth through his struggle to find [... more]
$15.00
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The Blood Oranges
A Blazing Imagination: John Hawkes has created some of the most beautiful prose ever penned; the word surface in this book is as memorable and enjoyable as any I've read, at turns surprising, sensual, poetic, and often all of this and more. As an [... more]
$12.95
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The Lime Twig
Oddly surrealist little mystery.: John Hawkes, The Lime Twig (New Directions, 1960) A friend of mine once said of the film Eraserhead that it was as close as cinema came to capturing a nightmare onscreen. (I disagree, but the parallel is useful.) The [... more]
$10.95
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The Cannibal
Underestimated Genius: John Hawkes is a master of allusion and sordid subtleties. In *The Cannibal*, Hawkes' apocalyptic vision of post-war Germany attacks the reader in the form of an ever-deepening chill. Readers of Gunter Grass's *The Tin Drum* will [... more]
$11.95
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The Owl and The Goose on the Grave: Two Novels (Sun & ...
Author: John Hawkes Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9781557131942 Edition: 1st Sun & Moon Ed ISBN: 1557131945 Number Of Pages: 232 Publication Date: 2000-03-01 [... more]
$12.95
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The Review of Contemporary Fiction
Author: Jean Rhys Author: John Hawkes Author: Paul Bowles Author: Marguerite Young Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 820 EAN: 9781564782496 ISBN: 1564782492 Publication Date: 2000-06 [... more]
$8.00
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The Beetle Leg (New Directions Paperback)
Nobody writes like this anymore: This is a surrealistic western, basically, with language so odd, crisp, and surprising that every page has to be savored. Hawkes is a tremendously perceptive writer, whether he's dealing with the violent or the mundane. [... more]
$9.95
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Death, Sleep and the Traveler
Still Life with Gauze . . .: This novel is first rate. Written in a prose-poetry rhythym sans the boundaries of harsh realities, the dream is contained barely in the covers. Causes the re-examination of the age-old dream or reality questions; photographs [... more]
$9.95
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The Passion Artist (Harper Colophon Books)
Grotesque and unpleasant: Hawkes' novel about a man whose obsession with women seems trapped in pre-adolescent ignorance is dark, disgusting and tedious. It is prettily written by an author with a good grasp of language, but it is a story that entirely [... more]
$3.95
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Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade (Contemporary ...
A Wonderful book!: I can't believe I am the first one to review this book! I read it last year for a college literature class and found it absolutely captivating. The imagery of Alaska is perfect, but the best part is the outstanding characterization of [... more]
$10.95
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The Lime Twig (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Author: John Hawkes Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780140189827 ISBN: 0140189823 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: 1996-06-01 [... more]
$14.95
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Sweet William: A Memoir of Old Horse
Poignant and grippingly accurate portrayal of a horse's life: This is "Black Beauty" for adults (rated "R" for violence and sexuality)! It captures eloquently the life of a thoroughbred horse from birth through his struggle to find [... more]
$20.00
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