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Whistlejacket by John Hawkes

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Name: John (Clendennin Burne) Hawkes, (Jr.)
Variant Name: John (Clendennin Burne) Hawkes, (Jr.), John Clendennin Burne Hawkes, Jr., John Clendennin Burne Hawkes
Birth Date: August 17, 1925
Place of Birth: Stamford, Connecticut
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of John (Clendennin Burne) Hawkes, (Jr.)
9482 words, approx. 31.6 pages
A writer of highly experimental, nightmarish fiction, John Hawkes was one of the most original and uncompromising artists to come out of the post-World War II generation of writers. Challenging established American fiction with its limitations of realism...
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Biography of John (Clendennin Burne) Hawkes, (Jr.)
4839 words, approx. 16.1 pages
John Hawkes was born in Stamford, Connecticut on 17 August 1925. He married Sophie Goode Tazewell in 1947, and they have four children. Hawkes took his undergraduate degree from Harvard in 1949. He has taught at Harvard, Stanford, and CCNY, and he is cur...
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Biography of John (Clendennin Burne) Hawkes, (Jr.)
3357 words, approx. 11.2 pages
A writer of highly experimental, nightmarish fiction since 1949, John Hawkes turned to playwriting in 1964. Awarded a Ford Foundation fellowship for work in drama, Hawkes became the writer-in-residence at The Actor's Workshop in San Francisco under the d...


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Investors Chronicle - magazine and web content
Standard Chartered bails out Whistlejacket.
01/31/2008: 402 words, approx. 1 pages
The bank is to support its Whistlejacket Capital SIV, potentially leaving it with a GBP3.6bn exposure John Adams Asia-focused lender, Standard Chartered , has said that it will support its Whistlejacket Capital structured investment vehicle (SIV) through buying its commercial paper. That could...
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CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
Deconstruction of genre in John Hawkes's 'Whistlejacket.'
06/22/1996: 5,889 words, approx. 20 pages
John Hawkes's novel 'Whistlejacket' deconstructs traditional concepts of genre by rendering indeterminate crucial elements of plot, character, theme, setting, and structure. Hawkes puts these elements under erasure through his use of play throughout the novel, which allows him to construct a narrative without a...
 


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Whistlejacket by John Hawkes

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