Fiasco Hall

Cambridge, Mass. Privately printed, 1943.

Price: $3,000.00

Softcover. First edition. 12mo. 14pp. Stapled printed gray wrappers. Staples slightly oxidized, else fine. Signed by the author on the title page. His first book, one of 100 copies printed, of which half were reportedly destroyed by the author.

Item #348107

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Item #348107 Fiasco Hall. J. C. B. HAWKES.
Fiasco Hall
Fiasco Hall
Fiasco Hall

John Hawkes
birth name: John Hawkes
born: 8/17/1925
died: 5/15/1998

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Biography

American author whose novels achieve a dreamlike (often nightmarish) intensity through the suspension of traditional narrative constraints. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

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