The Passion Artist - Hardcover

Hawkes, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060118083 ISBN 13: 9780060118082

Publisher: New York : Harper & Row, 1979

Synopsis

Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 185 pages; Description: 185 p. ; 22 cm. Form/genre: Fiction.

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Review:

John Hawkes writes with dizzying brilliance. -- Charles Nicol

His sentences are themselves 'events.' -- William Gaddis, author of The Recognitions

John Hawkes writes with dizzying brilliance.--Charles Nicol

His sentences are themselves events. --William Gaddis, author of The Recognitions

What an ambitious undertaking! The Passion Artist is a symbolic journey of the familiar territory men and women dispute between them, a rich philosophical observation of the differences in our sexes and the overwhelming need for compassion and love. It is a lush, poetic, dark work, but it is also comic and true and everywhere it is touched with the erotic power of John Hawkes s language. He and Kurt Vonnegut are simply the most original first-rate writers in this country. --John Irving, author of The World According to Garp

John Hawkes writes with dizzying brilliance. --Charles Nicol

About the Author:

John Hawkes (1925-1998) was one of the most innovative and widely-regarded English-language novelists of the twentieth century. Praised by Leslie Fiedler, Flannery O'Connor, and William H Gass, who wrote, "when it comes to the engravement of the sentence...no one can match him," Hawkes was the author numerous acclaimed novels.

About this edition

• Publisher: New York : Harper & Row
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0060118083
• ISBN 13: 9780060118082
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1