Death, Sleep & the Traveler: Novel

By John Hawkes

Book Overview

The author of seven full-length novels, several plays, and numerous short fictions, John Hawkes over the course of two and a half decades has won international acclaim. Death, Sleep & The Traveler is about a middle-aged Dutchman, his dissolving marriage, his involvement in two sexual triangles, his obsession with the murder he is accused of having committed on a pleasure cruise. "It is an exceptionally concise and beautiful work," writes the novelist-critic Jonathan Baumbach, "delicate, erotic, dreamlike--in all, a luminous novel by the richest prose stylist in American letters since Faulkner."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081120569X
• ISBN13: 9780811205696
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 179 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Still Life with Gauze . . .

This novel is first rate. Written in a prose-poetry rhythym sans the boundaries of harsh realities, the dream is contained barely in the covers. Causes the re-examination of the age-old dream or reality questions; photographs of the subconcious. Remarkably danceable.