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Aug 17, 1925 — May 15, 1998· 72 yrs

UNITED STATES AUTHOR · FICTION · CHILDREN

John Hawkes

Also known as: John Clendennin Talbot Burne Hawkes, Jr., Hawkes, John

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John Clendennin Talbot Burne Hawkes Jr. (August 17, 1925 – May 15, 1998) was a postmodern American novelist, known for the intensity of his work, which suspended some traditional constraints of narrative fiction.

Stamford, United States
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Mine is an impossible story.

— from Virginie, 1993

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Cannibal

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"Framed by "The Tempest" and calling on historical, cultural, and biological sources, "Cannibal" is a provocative poetic exploration of the female body, identity, and race"--

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Whistlejacket

1988

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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. In his search, Michael uses photographs and paintings to visualize the past and thereby expose a family's decadent legacy of sex, lies, and betrayal.

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Death, sleep & the traveler

1974

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Death, sleep & the traveler is about a middle-aged Dutchman, his dissolving marriage, his involvement with two sexual triangles, his obsession with the murder he is accused of having committed on a pleasure cruise. It is pure, brilliant, profound- a short masterpiece of comedy and myth.

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