The Beetle Leg
Fictionby John Hawkes
The Beetle Leg, John Hawkes’s second full-length novel, was first published by New Directions in 1951. Now, after more than fifteen years of underground existence, this brilliant novel is emerging as a classic of visionary writing and still remains Hawkes’s only work devoted solely to American life. As a ’surrealist Western" (Newsweek), and a violent and poetic portrayal of “a landscape of sexual apathy” (Albert J. Guerard), The Beetle Leg is a rich flight into the special vein of comedy that Hawkes had begun to exploit a decade before the popular acceptance of “black humor.”
Paperback(published Oct, 01 1967)
- ISBN
- 9780811200622
- Price US
- 9.95
Ebook(published Oct, 01 1967)
- ISBN
- 9780811222549
- Price US
- 9.95