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Publication
Dalkey Archive (2010), Paperback, 184 pages
Description
A classic of dark eroticism from one of the great American writers of the twentieth century.
Media reviews
I find the moral and intellectual pretensions of Hawkes's novels sophomoric at best. Nor am I able to discern the comic element which Hawkes and his admirers are always talking about and which apparently lurks somewhere in the reconciliation of innocence and depravity, in the flowering of beauty
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in the very slime-pits of the soul. Show Less
User reviews
LibraryThing member Crankpaw
Good scenes: The prostitute described as going down on him like a hungry lioness while putting a finger up his bum. The riot at the woman's prison. The flashback where as a child he is looking at a horse vagina and the woman/guardian shames him and then the horse drenches him with urine. Then when
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his guardian makes him have sex in front of him. Apart from these odd perverted scenes this book is kind of rambling and stupid. Show Less
Language
Original publication date
1979
Physical description
184 p.; 7.9 inches
ISBN
1564785602 / 9781564785602