The pilgrim hawk : a love story /
This powerful short novel describes the events of a single afternoon. Alwyn Towers, an American expatriate and sometime novelist, is staying with a friend outside of Paris, when a well-heeled, itinerant Irish couple drops in - with Lucy, their trained hawk, a restless, sullen, disturbingly totemic p...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York Review Books,
[2001]
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| Series: | New York Review Books classics.
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: | This powerful short novel describes the events of a single afternoon. Alwyn Towers, an American expatriate and sometime novelist, is staying with a friend outside of Paris, when a well-heeled, itinerant Irish couple drops in - with Lucy, their trained hawk, a restless, sullen, disturbingly totemic presence. Lunch is prepared, drink flows. A masquerade, at once harrowing and farcical, begins. A work of classical elegance and concision, The Pilgrim Hawk stands with Faulkner's The Bear as one of the finest American short novels: a beautifully crafted story that is also a poignant evocation of the implacable power of love. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published: Harper and Brothers, 1940"--Title page verso. The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. |
| Physical Description: | xx, 108 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781590174579 1590174577 9780940322561 0940322560 |