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Product Description: An exceptionally brilliant novel from “our most interesting writer” (Flannery O’Connor)Travesty is John Hawkes’s 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...read more

Hardcover:

9780811205979 | W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 1976, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: A man determines to catapult himself, his daughter, and their poet friend into a fatal crash, an instantaneous occurrence of perfectly contrived accident

Paperback:

9780811222167 | Reissue edition (New Directions, April 18, 2016), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: An exceptionally brilliant novel from “our most interesting writer” (Flannery O’Connor)Travesty is John Hawkes’s most extreme vision of eroticism and comic terror.
9780811206402 | New Directions, March 1, 1976, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: "John Hawkes is an extraordinary writer. I have always admired his books. They should be more widely read."―Saul Bellow Skipper, an ex-World War II naval Lieutenant and the narrator of Second Skin, interweaves past and present―what he refers to as his "naked history"―in a series of episodes that tell the story of a volatile life marked by pitiful losses, as well as a more elusive, overwhelming, joy...read more

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9780811216449 | New Directions, November 1, 2005, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: "John Hawkes is an extraordinary writer.
9780811200677 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1964, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: “I felt right away, reading the first paragraph of Second Skin, that I was in the presence of the qualities Nabokov considered the hallmarks of art: curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy.

Paperback:

9780140267341 | Penguin USA, July 1, 2000, cover price $11.95
9780811200615 | New Directions, March 1, 1972, cover price $18.95

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780140867008 | Penguin/Highbridge, August 1, 1998, cover price $16.95

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Product Description: Editor's Note/Joy Castro, "Jean Rhys"/Roy Falnnagan, "John Hawkes"/Anne Foltz, "Paul Bowles"/Constance Eichenlaub, "Marguerite Young"/Bruce Kellner, "Miss Young, My Darling: A Memoir" (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Paperback:

9781564782496 | Dalkey Archive Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $8.00 | About this edition: Editor's Note/Joy Castro, "Jean Rhys"/Roy Falnnagan, "John Hawkes"/Anne Foltz, "Paul Bowles"/Constance Eichenlaub, "Marguerite Young"/Bruce Kellner, "Miss Young, My Darling: A Memoir"

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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. NYT.

Hardcover:

9780783883809 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, January 1, 1998), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Thirteen-year-old narrator Dervla O'Shannon describes growing up in a foundling home, her courtship by an old soldier and her outrageous letters about it, Corporal Stack's shocking injury, and her captivity (with the elderly Stack) at a ruined Anglo-Irish estate
9780670875917 | Viking Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Thirteen-year-old narrator Dervla O'Shannon describes growing up in a foundling home, her courtship by an old soldier and her outrageous letters about it, Corporal Stack's shocking injury, and her captivity (with the elderly Stack) at a ruined Anglo-Irish estate

Paperback:

9780140267587 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, November 1, 1998), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: 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.

Paperback:

9780131039612 | 3 sub edition (Prentice Hall, March 1, 1998), cover price $97.32

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Asleep by a lily pond just before World War I, a young French child swallows a frog that not only survives within him but becomes a companion for life, sharing his physical and psychological pain but also giving him a strange sort of power over others

Hardcover:

9780670865772 | Viking Pr, June 1, 1996, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Asleep by a lily pond just before World War I, a young French child swallows a frog that not only survives within him but becomes a companion for life, sharing his physical and psychological pain but also giving him a strange sort of power over others

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9780140252996 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, September 1, 1997), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Asleep by a lily pond just before World War I, a young French child swallows a frog that not only survives within him but becomes a companion for life, sharing his physical and psychological pain but also giving him a strange sort of power over others

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Product Description: 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...read more

Hardcover:

9781555840495 | Grove Pr, June 1, 1988, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A fox hunt--a memorial to the late Harold T.

Paperback:

9781564781765 | Reprint edition (Dalkey Archive Pr, September 1, 1997), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: 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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Describes the experience of living in a foreign country as part of an exchange student program, and provides information on exchange programs, including destinations, the selection process, and support services

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9780816029228 | Facts on File, October 1, 1994, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Describes the experience of living in a foreign country as part of an exchange student program, and provides information on exchange programs, including destinations, the selection process, and support services

Paperback:

9780816029235 | Facts on File, September 1, 1995, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Describes the experience of living in a foreign country as part of an exchange student program, and provides information on exchange programs, including destinations, the selection process, and support services

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Product Description: This textbook on lasers is suitable for use in graduate and postgraduate courses. Both the theoretical and practical sides of the subject are covered and the text is organized in such a way that students with little or no knowledge of quantum mechanics can avoid the more theoretical sections and still gain an appreciation of the physics of lasers...read more

Paperback:

9780135214930 | Prentice Hall, May 1, 1995, cover price $39.00 | About this edition: This textbook on lasers is suitable for use in graduate and postgraduate courses.

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Product Description: two early novels (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Paperback:

9781557131942 | Sun & Moon Pr, March 1, 1995, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: two early novels

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Product Description: “A moving book, a warm, cranky book, in the end a book full of love of the horse.”—The Washington Post   In his most engaging, accessible novel to date, John Hawkes brings to life the sad, stately voice of Old Horse, nee Sweet William, who recounts the trials and tribulations of his life: his days as a racehorse, as a riding school nag, and finally as the broken down mount of a strange old man whose kindness transforms his life...read more

Hardcover:

9780671740573 | Simon & Schuster, August 1, 1993, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The fictional autobiography of a horse named 'Old Horse,' from his youth through his years on the racetrack of life, to his relationship with Master, the man whose kindness transforms his life

Paperback:

9780140236163 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, September 1, 1994), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: “A moving book, a warm, cranky book, in the end a book full of love of the horse.

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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

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9780020435914 | Collier Books, April 1, 1989, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A fox hunt--a memorial to the late Harold T.

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Paperback:

9780930901592 | Burning Deck Books, December 1, 1988, cover price $5.00

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Sunny Deauville's duties as proprietor of the best brothel in Alaska and her lusty, guilt-free life are counterbalanced by her obsession with finding her father, lost years before in the backcountry wilds

Paperback:

9780140092837 | Viking Pr, November 1, 1986, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Sunny Deauville's duties as proprietor of the best brothel in Alaska and her lusty, guilt-free life are counterbalanced by her obsession with finding her father, lost years before in the backcountry wilds

One of 2,000 copies.

Hardcover:

9780930901295 | Burning Deck Books, January 1, 1986, cover price $17.50

Paperback:

9780930901301 | Burning Deck Books, September 1, 1985, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: One of 2,000 copies.

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The author shares selections from his novels and stories, and describes the background of each work

Paperback:

9780811209076 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1984, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The author shares selections from his novels and stories, and describes the background of each work

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Twelve-year-old Virginie, a literary prodigy and reincarnated spirit, witnesses erotic charades of the eighteenth and twentieth centuries and becomes a victim of both eras

Hardcover:

9780811208406 | Sgd ltd edition (New Directions, April 1, 1982), cover price $100.00 | About this edition: 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 as the young sister to a Parisian taxi driver, a patron of a circle of prostitutes, in 1945.

Paperback:

9780881840544 | Carroll & Graf Pub, February 11, 1993, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Twelve-year-old Virginie, a literary prodigy and reincarnated spirit, witnesses erotic charades of the eighteenth and twentieth centuries and becomes a victim of both eras

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Product Description: A classic of dark eroticism from one of the great American writers of the twentieth century.

Hardcover:

9780811207508, titled "Passion Artist" | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1979, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A classic of dark eroticism from one of the great American writers of the twentieth century.

Paperback:

9780060908379 | Harpercollins, January 1, 1981, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: A classic of dark eroticism from one of the great American writers of the twentieth century.

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A middle-aged Dutchman whose marriage is deteriorating is accused of committing murder while on a cruise

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9780811205696 | New Directions, May 1, 1975, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A middle-aged Dutchman whose marriage is deteriorating is accused of committing murder while on a cruise
9780811205696 | New Directions, May 1, 1975, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A middle-aged Dutchman whose marriage is deteriorating is accused of committing murder while on a cruise

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A modern writer depicts the sufferings of man caught in the web of his own intrigues

Hardcover:

9780811202909 | New Directions, June 1, 1969, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A modern writer depicts the sufferings of man caught in the web of his own intrigues

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Product Description: Book by Hawkes, John

Paperback:

9780811200646 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1966, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Book by Hawkes, John

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Paperback:

9780811200653 | New Directions, June 1, 1961, cover price $15.95

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