The blood oranges
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The blood oranges
（A New Directions paperbook, 338）
New Directions, 1972, c1971
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The blood oranges / John Hawkes
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The blood oranges / John Hawkes
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"First published as New Directions Paperbook 338 in 1972"--T.p. verso
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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.
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