The Blood Oranges: A Novel
No synopsis or comparison can convey the novel's lyric comedy or, indeed, its sinister power—sinister because of the strength of will Cyril exerts over his wife, his mistress, his wife's reluctant lover; lyric, since he is also a sex-singer in the land where music is the food of love.Need I insist that the only enemy of the mature marriage is monogamy? That anything less than sexual multiplicity . . . is naive? That our sexual selves are merely idylers in a vast wood? Thus the central theme of John Hawkes's widely acclaimed novel The Blood Oranges is boldly asserted by its narrator, Cyril, the archetypal multisexualist. Likening himself to a…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-2255-6
- EAN: 9780811222556
- Produktnummer: 34247235
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1972
- Seitenangabe: 284 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 560 KB
Über den Autor
John Hawkes (1925-1998) was a postmodern novelist born in Stamford, Connecticut, and educated at Harvard University. He was noted for his unconventional style and views on the creation of literature and was admired by Flannery O'Connor, Robert Penn Warren, Saul Bellow, Anthony Burgess, Jeffrey Eugenides, and Donald Barthelme.
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