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Title: TRAVESTY
Publisher: NEW YORK NY NEW DIRECTIONS BOOK PUB 1976.
Publication Date: 1976
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0811205975
ISBN 13: 9780811205979
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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A man determines to catapult himself, his daughter, and their poet friend into a fatal crash, an instantaneous occurrence of perfectly contrived accident

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John Hawkes (1925–1998) was a postmodern novelist born in Stamford, Connecticut, and educated at Harvard University. He was noted for his unconventional style and views on the creation of literature and was admired by Flannery O’Connor, Robert Penn Warren, Saul Bellow, Anthony Burgess, Jeffrey Eugenides, and Donald Barthelme.

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