Whistlejacket: A Novel - Hardcover

Hawkes, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555840493 ISBN 13: 9781555840495

Publisher: Grove Pr, 1988

Synopsis

A fox hunt--a memorial to the late Harold T. Van Fleet--becomes a disturbing and sordid event in which the connection between sexual and artistic dominance is explored

About this title

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 the Author:

John Hawkes (1925-1998) was one of the most innovative and widely regarded novelists of the twentieth century. Born in Stamford, Connecticut, and educated at Harvard University, Hawkes taught at Brown University for thirty years. 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 of numerous acclaimed novels, including The Lime Twig, The Beetle Leg, Second Skin, Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade and The Passion Artist.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Pr
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 1555840493
• ISBN 13: 9781555840495
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 194