John Hawkes’ the Beetle Leg I’ve read this short novel a…
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John Hawkes’ the Beetle Leg
I’ve read this short novel a decade ago and remember loving it, so I’m rereading it. It’s one of the most bizarre novels I’ve ever read. Somehow mundane, boring life in a small town—with a dramatic dam—is rendered incomprehensibly bizarre. I can’t quite explain it, but the prose somehow makes everything nightmarish and eerie, almost like a David Lynch western. Hawks is like McCarthy amalgamated with surrealism. Anyone else have a better description of Hawkes’ prose? Anyone read this too?
#entertainment
I’ve read this short novel a decade ago and remember loving it, so I’m rereading it. It’s one of the most bizarre novels I’ve ever read. Somehow mundane, boring life in a small town—with a dramatic dam—is rendered incomprehensibly bizarre. I can’t quite explain it, but the prose somehow makes everything nightmarish and eerie, almost like a David Lynch western. Hawks is like McCarthy amalgamated with surrealism. Anyone else have a better description of Hawkes’ prose? Anyone read this too?
#entertainment
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