John Hawkes

Death, Sleep & the Traveler: Novel (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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, dreamlikein all, a luminous novel by the richest prose stylist in American letters since Faulkner.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions
• Seitenzahl: 179
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 1975
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780811222594
• Artikelnr.: 59593316

Autorenporträt

John Hawkes (19251998) was a postmodern novelist born in Stamford, Connecticut, and educated at Harvard University. He was noted for his unconventional style and views on the creation of literature and was admired by Flannery O'Connor, Robert Penn Warren, Saul Bellow, Anthony Burgess, Jeffrey Eugenides, and Donald Barthelme.