The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story by Wescott, Glenway

The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781590174579)

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The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story by Wescott, Glenway

The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story

$14.95
The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story by Wescott, Glenway

The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story

$14.95
Format: Paperback
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This powerful short novel describes the events of a single afternoon. Alwyn Tower, 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.

Author: Glenway Wescott
ISBN-10: 1590174577
ISBN-13: 9781590174579
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 08/16/2011
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.00w x 0.50d
By Glenway Wescott
By Glenway Wescott
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Glenway Wescott (1901-1987) grew up in Wisconsin, but moved to France with his companion Monroe Wheeler in 1925. Wescott's early fiction, notably the stories in Goodbye, Wisconsin and the novel The Grandmothers (in which Alwyn Tower, the narrator of The Pilgrim Hawk, makes his first appearance), were set in his native Midwest. Later work included essays on political, literary, and spiritual subjects, as well as the novels The Pilgrim Hawk and Apartment in Athens (also available as an NYRB Classic). Wescott's journals, recording his many literary and artistic friendships and offering an intimate view of his life as a gay man, were published posthumously under the title Continual Lessons.

Michael Cunningham is the author of seven novels, including A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, The Hours (which won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award), and, most recently, The Snow Queen. He is a senior lecturer of creative writing at Yale University.

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