Fiasco Hall

Cambridge, Mass. Privately printed, 1943.

Price: $2,500.00

Softcover. First edition. 12mo. 14pp. Stapled printed gray wrappers. Slightest age-toning, else fine. Signed by the author on the title page. Hawkes' first book, one of 100 copies printed, of which half were reportedly destroyed by the author.

Item #453465

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Item #453465 Fiasco Hall. J. C. B. HAWKES, Jr, John Hawkes.
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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