Passion Artist - Hardcover
Set in an imaginary European city, The Passion Artist takes us into the dream-like interior world of Konrad Vost, a middle-aged widower grieving for his dead wife, devoted to his schoolgirl daughter, and obsessed with the memory of his mother, who is an inmate in the city's prison. When Vost discovers that his daughter has become a prostitute, and that the women prisoners are in revolt, he embarks ona fantastic series of violent and erotic encounters, exploring the shifting balance of power between the sexes, and the limits of human perversity.
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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
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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
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.
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- PublisherW W Norton & Co Inc
- Publication date1979
- ISBN 10 0811207501
- ISBN 13 9780811207508
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Slipcase: Fine. Limited to 200 copies, this is #48, SIGNED by John Hawkes on the limitation page. The volume has a spot of soiling on the bottom page edges, else fine in slipcase. Signed. Seller Inventory # 13051007
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine Plus. First Edition - Limited. hard cover in slipcase, cloth-backed, paper-covered boards with gilt lettering., signed by hawkes, and numbered 61 from the limited edition of 200 copies., clean, no markings or writing. tight binding. no bumps, tears, or flaws.; 185pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 17961
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. **A signed and limited New Directions Book** A near fine 8vo hardcover in a VG- slipcase. No dj as issued. Copy no. 131 of 200 copies of this special edition signed on the rear limitation page by the author John Hawkes. The otherwise fine burgundy paper boards have a touch of rubbing along the fore edge. Similarly the boards are quarter bound in black cloth which is fine except for some very light bumping in the spine head and tail edges. The tan slipcase has some smudges and other light soiling, plus a small surface tear in one corner, but remains structurally sound and fully functional. NOT an ex-library copy!. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # u6297
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Book Description hardcover. Ltd. Ed. black cloth w/ maroon paper boards; title on front, & lettering on spine, in gilt; tan endpapers; 185 pgs; tan slipcase; #146 0f 200 signed copies; trade ed pub by Harper. book design by Janice Stern. fine copy; slipcase bumped on spine w/ edge-crack repaired, else near fine. Seller Inventory # 771
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Book Description Hardcovers. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Limited issue of 200 numbered copies signed by Hawkes on the limitation page. Copy #24. Quarter-cloth and paper-covered boards. Issued without dustjacket. Slipcase. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine slipcase. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 101193
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Book Description Hardcover. First Edition. 185 pages. Limited edition of 200 signed and numberd copies. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in the original slipcase with light fading to the edges. Signed by the author on the limitation page. This is copy number 97. Seller Inventory # 266775
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Book Description 1/4 Cloth. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Slipcase. Signed Limited Edition. Red paper covered boards with gold titles on front cover, one upper corner bumped. Black cloth covered spine with silver titles, head lightly bumped. Book body clean and tight signed by the author on the limitation page, limited edition 129/200. Tan slipcase shows hevay wear to edges, some splitting near the head of spine, slipcase is sunned. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 40078
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine - Slipcase. Signed Limited Edition. 186 pp, copy #62, of 200 copies signed on the last page by John Hawkes. 6.1" x 9" black cloth hinge (1/8 bound) with gilt spine letters + dark brown cloth covered boards, in beige box slip case. Size: Octavo. Signed by Author(s). Book. Seller Inventory # 007357
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