Whistlejacket
John Hawkes. Dalkey Archive Press, $12.95 (208pp) ISBN 978-1-56478-176-5
A photographer is caught up in a web of erotic intrigue and murder. (Aug.)
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Reviewed on: 09/01/1997
Genre: Fiction
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