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The Beetle Leg
The Beetle Leg, John Hawkes's second full-length novel, was first published by New Directions in 1951. After years of underground existence, this brilliant novel is emerging as a classic of visionary writing and still remains Hawkes's only work devoted solely to American life. As a 'surrealist Western" (Newsweek), and a violent and poetic portrayal of "a landscape of sexual apathy" (Albert J. Guerard), The Beetle Leg is a rich flight into the special vein of comedy that Hawkes had begun to exploit a decade before the popular acceptance of "black humor."
Book Details
- Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Publish Date: Jan 17th, 1951
- Pages: 159
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.22in - 0.44in - 0.38lb
- EAN: 9780811200622
- Categories: • Christian - General• Literary• Classics
About the Author
Hawkes, John: - John Hawkes (1925-1998) 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.
Praise for this book
The mixture of pity and exhilaration in the human condition is recreated with chilling authenticity by Hawkes. His is a search into the pit that stops at no amount of terrifying discovery. Admitting everything, rejecting nothing, Hawkes writes from a viewpoint held by few American authors.--S. K. Oberbeck "Contemporary American Novelists"