Author | John Hawkes |
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Language | English |
Publication date | 1971 |
Media type | Print (Hardback) |
The Blood Oranges is a 1971 novel by American writer John Hawkes. The novel belongs to a triad, along with Death, Sleep, & the Traveler and Travesty.[1] The novel takes place in a fictionalized version of Illyria.[2][3]
Webster Schott, writing in Life, referred to the novel as "...poetry passing as fiction, intellectualism doubling as sex daydream."[4]