The Beetle Leg

✍ Scribed by Hawkes, John

• Book ID: 108571409
• Publisher: New Directions
• Year: 1951
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 148 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780811222549

✦ Synopsis

After years of underground existence, this brilliant novel is emerging as a classic of visionary writing and still remains Hawkes's only work devoted solely to American life.

The Beetle Leg, John Hawkes's second full-length novel, was first published by New Directions in 1951. After years of underground existence, this brilliant novel is emerging as a classic of visionary writing and still remains Hawkes's only work devoted solely to American life. As a 'surrealist Western" (Newsweek), and a violent and poetic portrayal of "a landscape of sexual apathy" (Albert J. Guerard), The Beetle Leg is a rich flight into the special vein of comedy that Hawkes had begun to exploit a decade before the popular acceptance of "black humor."