description: The definitive critical study of the John Hawkes novels written from Charivari (1949) through The Blood Oranges (1971). Acknowledgments; Preface; Technique and Comedy in Hawkes' Novels; The Innovative Charivari, The Goose on the Grave, The Owl; Casualties of The Cannibal; Nighmarish The Beetle Leg; Small, Yet Beyond The Lime Twig; Love at Second Skin; Memoirs of a The Blood Oranges; A Few Remarks and Conclusions; Selected Checklist of John Hawkes; Index. 260 pages.
title: Comic Terror: The Novels of John Hawkes
titlecomplete: Comic Terror: The Novels of John Hawkes
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publisher: Memphis State Univ Pr