{"product_id":"travesty-paperback","title":"Travesty - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Hawkes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTravesty\u003c\/em\u003e is John Hawkes's most extreme vision of eroticism and comic terror. In the south of France, an elegant sports car is speeding through the night, bearing a man, his daughter, and his best friend toward a fatal crash. As he drives, the \"privileged man\" justifies, in a sustained monologue, his firm opinion that willed destruction is the ultimate act of the poetic imagination. \"What I have in mind is an 'accident' so perfectly contrived that it will be unique, spectacular and instantaneous, a physical counterpart to that vision in which it was in fact conceived.\" Concerned with sex, myth, the imagination, and the absurd, \u003cem\u003eTravesty\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the most cruelly and vibrantly ironic works to be found in twentieth-century literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 19, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42174936219783,"sku":"9780811222167","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/4b1699dfeee8a0b16c5230d80c707fbc.webp?v=1733378023","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/travesty-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}