The Blood Oranges

The Blood Oranges
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 298
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ISBN-10 : 0811200612
ISBN-13 : 9780811200615
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Blood Oranges by : John Hawkes

Download or read book The Blood Oranges written by John Hawkes and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1971 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Need I insist that the only enemy of the mature marriage is monogamy? That anything less than sexual multiplicity . . . is naive? That our sexual selves are merely idylers in a vast wood?" Thus the central theme of John Hawkes's widely acclaimed novel The Blood Oranges is boldly asserted by its narrator, Cyril, the archetypal multisexualist. Likening himself to a white bull on Love's tapestry, he pursues his romantic vision in a primitive Mediterranean landscape. There two couples--Cyril and Fiona, Hugh and Catherine--mingle their loves in an "lllyria" that brings to mind the equally timeless countryside of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.


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