Humors of blood & skin
Subtitle: a John Hawkes reader : autobiographical notes
By: by the author ; introduction by William H. Gass.
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 1984
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Other titles: Humors of blood and skin.
Work titles: Selections. 
Description: " ... Hawkes's own selection from his novels, stories, and his current novel-in-progress, Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade. In autobiographical commentaries, Hawkes provides a context for each of the selections and discusses the genesis and the writing of his work. As a novelist whose creative life has depended largely on travel, he evokes the actual places that have inspired his imaginary worlds: the Alaska of his boyhood; the Caribbean island where he wrote Second Skin; the Germany he knew as an ambulance driver in World War II; the South of France where he searched for images of Picasso and the Marquis de Sade."--Cover.