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| Genre/Form: | Love stories Fiction |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Glenway Wescott |
| ISBN: | 9781590174579 1590174577 0940322560 9780940322561 |
| OCLC Number: | 45172111 |
| Notes: | "Originally published: Harper and Brothers, 1940."--T.p. verso. |
| Description: | xx, 108 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Series Title: | New York Review Books classics. |
| Responsibility: | Glenway Wescott ; introduction by Michael Cunningham. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
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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