Whistlejacket (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) - Softcover

Hawkes, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564781763 ISBN 13: 9781564781765

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 2009

Synopsis

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. An inventive mix of biography, history, erotica, and classic whodunit, "Whistlejacket" is John Hawkes at his best as he blurs distinctions between death and desire, image and language, art and morality.

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Review:

"Faintly menacing, deliberately ambiguous, heavy with sexual innuendo, the narrator's voice in this tightly spun, chilling new novel by accomplished writer Hawkes ("Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade") is appropriate to the bizarre story that unfolds." --"Publishers Weekly"

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1564781763
• ISBN 13: 9781564781765
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 194