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Synopsis
A tale of death and desire, erotic intrigue and duplicity, family circumstance, expectation and betrayal. Observed through the eyes of a disturbed young photographer, it tells of a family devoted to fox-hunting, of a husband's murder and a wife's revenge and of the carnality that connects them.
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From the Back Cover
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. In his search, Michael uses photographs and paintings to visualize the past and thereby expose a family's decadent legacy of sex, lies, and betrayal.
About the Author
John Hawkes (1925-1998) was one of the most innovative and widely regarded novelists of the twentieth century. Born in Stamford, Connecticut, and educated at Harvard University, Hawkes taught at Brown University for thirty years. Praised by Leslie Fiedler, Flannery O'Connor, and William H. Gass, who wrote, "when it comes to the engravement of the sentence . . . no one can match him," Hawkes was the author of numerous acclaimed novels, including The Lime Twig, The Beetle Leg, Second Skin, Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade and The Passion Artist.
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- PublisherRandom House Canada
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0394220110
- ISBN 13 9780394220116
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages94
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