Death, Sleep & the Traveler
Death, Sleep & The Traveler is about a middle-aged Dutchman, his dissolving marriage, his involvement in two sexual triangles, his obsession with the murder he is accused of having committed on a pleasure cruise.
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Book Information
| Publisher: | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
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| Publish Date: | 01/19/1975 |
| Pages: | 179 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780811205696 |
| ISBN-10: | 081120569X |
| Language: | English |
Full Description
The author of seven full-length novels, several plays, and numerous short fictions, John Hawkes over the course of two and a half decades has won international acclaim.Death, Sleep & The Traveler is about a middle-aged Dutchman, his dissolving marriage, his involvement in two sexual triangles, his obsession with the murder he is accused of having committed on a pleasure cruise. It is an exceptionally concise and beautiful work, writes the novelist-critic Jonathan Baumbach, delicate, erotic, dreamlike in all, a luminous novel by the richest prose stylist in American letters since Faulkner.