The Beetle Leg

✍ Scribed by John Hawkes

• Book ID: 112313375
• Publisher: New Directions
• Year: 1951
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 98 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780811200622

✦ 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. Now, after more than sixty years, 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" (A.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."