John Hawkes

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born

August 17, 1925 in Stamford, Connecticut, The United States

died

May 15, 1998

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male

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http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Literary_Arts/...

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Literature & Fiction

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John Hawkes, born John Clendennin Talbot Burne Hawkes, Jr., was a postmodern American novelist, known for the intensity of his work, which suspended the traditional constraints of the narrative.
Born in Stamford, Connecticut, and educated at Harvard University, Hawkes taught at Brown University for thirty years. Although he published his first novel, The Cannibal, in 1949, it was The Lime Twig (1961) that first won him acclaim. Later, however, his second novel, The Beetle Leg, an intensely surrealistic western set in a Montana landscape that T. S. Eliot might have conjured, came to be viewed by many critics as one of the landmark novels of 20th Century American literature.
Hawkes died in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Average rating: 3.70 · 1,255 ratings · 168 reviews · 33 distinct works

	The Lime Twig by John Hawkes, Leslie Fiedler (Introduction) 3.78 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 1961 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Blood Oranges 3.54 avg rating — 222 ratings — published 1971 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Second Skin by John Hawkes, Jeffrey Eugenides (Preface by) 3.88 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 1964 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Travesty 3.84 avg rating — 134 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Beetle Leg 3.81 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1951	My rating:
	The Cannibal 3.70 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 1949 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Death, Sleep & the Traveler 3.81 avg rating — 70 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Passion Artist 3.48 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1979 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Sweet William: A Memoir of Old Horse 3.81 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Frog 3.82 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	My rating:

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“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?”
― John Hawkes, Blood Oranges

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“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme.”
― John Hawkes

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“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained.”
― John Hawkes

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