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The frog / John Hawkes.

Title
The frog / John Hawkes.
Author
Hawkes, John, 1925-1998
Publication
New York : Viking, 1996.

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Additional Authors
Stoddard, Roger E. (Roger Eliot)
Description
191 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
Early this century a French boy swallows a frog which becomes a permanent resident in his stomach. Nobody believes him and he is sent to an asylum where, with sexual assistance from the frog, he seduces the director's wife, later ending up in a brothel. A fairy tale for adults by the author of The Blood Oranges.
Subject
  • Fantastic fiction
  • Frogs > Fiction
  • Human-animal relationships > Fiction
  • Human-animal relationships > Fiction
  • Young men > France > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Parables
  • Authors' presentation copies (Provenance) – Rhode Island – Providence – 1996.
  • Fantasy fiction
  • Fiction
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
067086577X (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^95004770^
OCLC
  • 32589035
  • SCSB-11653465
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library