Research Catalog

Title

Humors of blood & skin : a John Hawkes reader : autobiographical notes by the author / [John Hawkes] ; introduction by William H. Gass.

Author

Hawkes, John, 1925-1998.

Publication

New York : New Directions, 1984.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Gass, William H., 1924-2017
• Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
• Bauman, Leslie
• New Directions Publishing, publisher.
• Murray Printing Company, printer.
• James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Description

xvi, 298 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

" ... 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.

Series Statement

New Directions paperbook ; NDP577

Uniform Title

Works. Selections. 1984

Alternative Title

• Works. 1984
• Humors of blood and skin.

Subject

• Hawkes, John, 1925-1998
• 1900-1999
• American fiction > 20th century
• American fiction

Genre/Form

• Fiction.
• Dust jackets (Binding) – New York (State) – New York – 1984.

Note

• "A New Directions book" -- title page.
• "New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.

Indexed In (note)

• Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin

Binding (note)

• bound in publishers' red cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Leslie Bauman.
• bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Leslie Bauman.

Contents

The traveler -- The grandmother -- A little bit of the old slap and tickle -- The universal fears -- The cannibal -- The assassination -- The beetle leg -- Ma's wedding -- The lime twig -- Rock castle -- Second skin -- The kissing bandits -- The blood oranges -- The chastity belt -- Death, sleep & the traveler -- The flute player -- Travesty -- Dead passion -- The passion artist -- The martyr of La Violaine -- Virginie, her two lives -- An amorous bestiary -- Adventures of the Alaskan skin trade -- In Taku Bay.

Call Number

JFD 85-2704

ISBN

• 0811209067
• 9780811209069
• 0811209075
• 9780811209076

LCCN

84004890

OCLC

10558720

Author

Hawkes, John, 1925-1998.

Title

Humors of blood & skin : a John Hawkes reader : autobiographical notes by the author / [John Hawkes] ; introduction by William H. Gass.

Imprint

New York : New Directions, 1984.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New Directions paperbook ; NDP577

Indexed In:

Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 111

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1012 bound in publishers' red cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Leslie Bauman. NN

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1013 bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Leslie Bauman. NN

Local Note

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1012, 22-1013 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Gass, William H., 1924-2017, writer of introduction.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.

Bauman, Leslie, cover designer, bookjacket designer.

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Murray Printing Company, printer.

Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.

Javitch, Daniel, donor.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.

James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Added Title

Humors of blood and skin.

Other Form:

Online version: Hawkes, John, 1925-1998. Selections. 1984. Humors of blood & skin. New York : New Directions, 1984 (OCoLC)558039593

Research Call Number

Berg Coll 22-1012

Berg Coll 22-1013

JFD 85-2704