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The Universal Fears

John Hawkes

‘He was most seriously injured, as it turned out, not in the groin or flanks or belly, but in the head.’

John Hawkes

John Hawkes was a writer of short stories, plays and a number of novels, including The Cannibal, The Second Skin, The Blood Oranges, and Death, Sleep and the Traveller. He was a Professor of English at Brown University until his death in 1998.

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