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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
New Directions
Publication date
April 18, 2016
Pages
127
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reissue
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780811222167
ISBN-10
0811222160
Dimensions
0.50 by 5.50 by 8.25 in.
Weight
0.32 lbs.
Original list price
$14.95
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
An exceptionally brilliant novel from âour most interesting writerâ (Flannery OâConnor)
Travesty is John Hawkesâs most extreme vision of eroticism and comic terror. In the south of France, an elegant sports car is speeding through the night, bearing a man, his daughter, and his best friend toward a fatal crash. As he drives, the âprivileged manâ justifies, in a sustained monologue, his firm opinion that willed destruction is the ultimate act of the poetic imagination. âWhat I have in mind is an âaccidentâ so perfectly contrived that it will be unique, spectacular and instantaneous, a physical counterpart to that vision in which it was in fact conceived.â Concerned with sex, myth, the imagination, and the absurd, Travesty is one of the most cruelly and vibrantly ironic works to be found in twentieth-century literature.Editions
Hardcover
from W W Norton & Co Inc (March 1, 1976)
9780811205979 | details & prices | 128 pages | List price $5.95
About: A man determines to catapult himself, his daughter, and their poet friend into a fatal crash, an instantaneous occurrence of perfectly contrived accident
About: A man determines to catapult himself, his daughter, and their poet friend into a fatal crash, an instantaneous occurrence of perfectly contrived accident
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
Reissue edition from New Directions (April 18, 2016)
9780811222167 | details & prices | 127 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.32 lbs | List price $14.95
About: An exceptionally brilliant novel from âour most interesting writerâ (Flannery OâConnor)Travesty is John Hawkesâs most extreme vision of eroticism and comic terror.
About: An exceptionally brilliant novel from âour most interesting writerâ (Flannery OâConnor)Travesty is John Hawkesâs most extreme vision of eroticism and comic terror.
from New Directions (March 1, 1976)
9780811206402 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.30 lbs | List price $14.95
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