{"product_id":"9780811222358","title":"Travesty","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn exceptionally brilliant novel from “our most interesting writer” (Flannery O’Connor)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cem\u003eTravesty\u003c\/em\u003e is John Hawkes’s most extreme vision of eroticism and comic terror. In the south of France, an elegant sports car is speeding through the night, bearing a man, his daughter, and his best friend toward a fatal crash. As he drives, the “privileged man” justifies, in a sustained monologue, his firm opinion that willed destruction is the ultimate act of the poetic imagination. “What I have in mind is an ‘accident’ so perfectly contrived that it will be unique, spectacular and instantaneous, a physical counterpart to that vision in which it was in fact conceived.” Concerned with sex, myth, the imagination, and the absurd, \u003cem\u003eTravesty\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the most cruelly and vibrantly ironic works to be found in twentieth-century literature.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128344264944,"sku":"9780811222358","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811222358_p0.jpg?v=1763741103","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811222358","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}