Description
In the south of France, an elegant sports car cuts through the night with a man, his daughter, and his best friend aboard—heading toward a crash that feels less like accident than design. As the journey unfolds, the novel turns erotic intensity and dark comedy into a volatile experiment in control, art, and moral collapse, asking what it means to “create” through destruction. With its extreme blend of comic terror and unsettling intimacy, the book probes themes of complicity, power, and the thin line between performance and harm. Written in John Hawkes’s distinctive, audacious style, this is a provocative, boundary-pushing work that treats desire and catastrophe as twin engines of narrative momentum.
Available Editions
paperback
Chatto & Windus
Published Jan 1, 1976
128 pages
ISBN: 9780701121570
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Details
First Published
1976
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Travesty by John Hawkes.