Virginie: Her Two Lives
New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1982. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. "John Hawkes is widely regarded as one of the masters of modernism, a narrative virtuoso who is as innovative as he is accomplished. Both of these qualities are richly displayed and even extended in Virginie: Her Two Lives. The novel is inspired by the tradition of French erotic fiction from de Sade to Bataille. But Hawkes goes his mentors..... More
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