Books written by John Hawkes
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The Beetle Leg: A Novel
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.
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The Lime Twig
Worked out with all the meticulous detail, terror, and suspense of a nightmare, the tale is, on one level, comparable to a Graham Greene thriller; on another, it explores a group of people, their relationships fears, and loves.
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The Passion Artist
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 and the ...
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Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade
A Western tall tale and a psychological thriller of stunning insight and depth, this is Hawkes' most ambitious work ever.
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The Passion Artist
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...
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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...
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The Cannibal: The Beetle Leg
The Cannibal: The Beetle Leg
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Second Skin
John Hawkes is an extraordinary writer. I have always admired his books. They should be more widely read.--Saul Bellow
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Whistlejacket: A Novel
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.
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The Blood Oranges
"Rich, evocative, highly original piece of fiction. It gilds contemporary American literature with real, not synthetic, gold."—Anthony Burgess
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The Cannibal
The Cannibal was John Hawkes's first novel, published in 1949.
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Travesty
In the south of France, an elegant sportscar is speeding through the night, bearing a man, his daughter, and his best friend toward a fatal crash.
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Death, Sleep and the Traveler
A middle-aged Dutchman whose marriage is deteriorating is accused of committing murder while on a cruise
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Humors of Blood & Skin: A John Hawkes Reader : Autobiographical Notes
" ... Hawkes's own selection from his novels, stories, and his current novel-in-progress, Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade. In autobiographical commentaries, Hawkes provides a context for each of the...
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The Lime Twig: A Novel
The Lime Twig: A Novel
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Sweet William: A Memoir of Old Horse
"John Hawkes (author of thirteen previous novels, including The Lime Twig, Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade, Virginie, and The Blood Oranges) is one of American fiction's most honored, irascible...
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Virginie: Her Two Lives
The story within this beautiful limited edition is about Virginie, an 11-year-old girl leading two lives -- one as a servant to the aristocratic Seigneur, a creator of erotically receptive women for the decadent nobility, in 1740; the other ...
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An Irish Eye
Dervla O'Shannon, an Irish girl being raised in grim circumstances at a home for foundling girls, begins a picaresque journey toward fulfillment after meeting old Corporal Stack, a World War I veteran as discontented as Dervla. Reprint.
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Innocence in Extremis
Innocence in Extremis
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The Cannibal: Novel
Gregory Corso. Long Live Man NDPl27. Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit. NDP522. Robert Creeley. Windows. NDP687. Guy Davenport. 7 Greeks NDP799. Margaret Dawe, Nissequott. NDP775. Osamu Dazat, The Setting Sun NDP258. No Longer Human.