| Blood Oranges Revised Edition Contributor(s): Hawkes, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0811200612 ISBN-13: 9780811200615 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 1972 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Romance - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 74152516 |
| Series: New Directions Paperbook |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.21" W x 8.01" (0.62 lbs) 284 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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? Thus the central theme of John Hawkes's widely acclaimed novel The Blood Oranges is boldly asserted by its narrator, Cyril, the archetypal multisexualist. Likening himself to a white bull on Love's tapestry, he pursues his romantic vision in a primitive Mediterranean landscape. There two couples--Cyril and Fiona, Hugh and Catherine--mingle their loves in an lllyria that brings to mind the equally timeless countryside of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hawkes, John: - 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. |