Description
Title: Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story
Author: Glenway Wescott
ISBN: 9780940322561
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Published: 2001
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Main
Number of Pages: 136
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : This powerful short novel describes the events of a single afternoon. Alwyn Towers, 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.
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