The blood oranges

Author(s)

• Hawkes, John

Bibliographic Information

The blood oranges

John Hawkes

（A New Directions paperbook, 338）

New Directions, 1972, c1971

• : pbk

Note

"First published as New Directions Paperbook 338 in 1972"--T.p. verso

Description and Table of Contents

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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Details

• NCID: BA07085399
• ISBN:
  • 0811200612
• LCCN: 74152516
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: [New York]
• Pages/Volumes: 271 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PZ3.H3132
  • LCC : PS3558.A82
  • DC : 813/.5/4
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00345403