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The Blood Oranges

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#349448-VF44
Titel	The Blood Oranges
Auteur	Hawkes, John
Boektype	Paperback
Druk	5e druk
Uitgeverij	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Jaar van uitgave	1971
ISBN10	0811200612
ISBN13	9780811200615
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting	No synopsis or comparison can convey the novel's lyric comedy or, indeed, its sinister power—sinister because of the strength of will Cyril exerts over his wife, his mistress, his wife's reluctant lover; lyric, since he is also a “sex-singer" in the land where music is the food of love. "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 cou... (Lees verder)ples—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.
Pagina's	271
Conditie	Goed — Browned.
Prijs	€ 10,00

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