Adding product to your cart
| Author/Contributor(s): |
Hawkes, John
|
| Publisher: |
New Directions Publishing Corporation
|
| Date: |
01/17/1961
|
| Binding: |
Paperback
|
| Condition: |
NEW
|
But it would be unfair to the reader to reveal what happens when a gang of professional crooks gets wind of the scheme and moves to muscle in on this bettors' dream of a long-odds situation. Worked out with all the meticulous detail, terror, and suspense of a nightmare, the tale is, on one level, comparable to a Graham Greene thriller; on another, it explores a group of people, their relationships fears, and loves. For as Leslie A. Fiedler says in his introduction, John Hawkes.. . makes terror rather than love the center of his work, knowing all the while, of course, that there can be no terror without the hope for love and love's defeat . . . .
Use left/right arrows to navigate the slideshow or swipe left/right if using a mobile device
