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Whistlejacket
by
John Hawkes
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...more
Paperback, 208 pages
Published
September 1st 1997
by Dalkey Archive Press
(first published August 27th 1989)
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John Hawkes’s title The Blood Oranges always triggers the following memory: I was eight or thereabouts, pootling for sweets in a little shop beside the funeral parlour and draper’s shop. Between the curtain and draper’s was a little sneak lane, giving easier access to the suburb. After buying a pack of Parma Violets and Refreshers, I headed for the lane, only to see a gang of yoofs in shellsuits swearing and kicking the wall. Back then I was courageous. I took risks, I walked into the valley of...more
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Read Travesty in college, and hadn't touched Hawkes since. Picked this up at the library for 25 cents due to the Barthelme blurb on the back. All I can say is what a badass. The Stubbs painting story flashback section is nuts. I'll never look at a horse the same way again. Bonus points for a few flourishes about photography that are very insightful.
haunting, great, interesting (and lots of accurate stuff about riding!) Really well-done.
George Stubbs chapter; chapter 3 (grandfather)
Sep 09, 2012
Nathan "N.R." Gaddis
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Hawkes interview from the time of Whistlejacket, Conjuctions, Spring 1989:
http://www.conjunctions.com/archive.htm
http://www.conjunctions.com/archive.htm
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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 (196...more
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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 (196...more
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