J. M. Hawes, Author, James Hawes, Author Pantheon Books $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-44225-7
Aided and abetted by a dysfunctionally cool cast of Londoners and a slick, accelerated plot, Hawes's debut crosses British post-Thatcher class warfare with the all-American bank-job crime novel. Our nameless ""Lower M.C."" (Lower Middle Class)...
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James Hawes, Author . St. Martin's $23.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-312-37651-2
In a swaggering, sometimes condescending and often contentious introduction to Kafka, Hawes draws on the writer's stories, diaries and letters, as well as contemporary cultural documents as he asks the real Kafka to please stand up. Rather than
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James Hawes, Author MacAdam/Cage Publishing $23 (338p) ISBN 978-1-59692-141-2
In this corker of a satire on politics and culture (the author's fifth novel; the first to be published in the U.S.), Brian Marley is plunked down in the horrific jungles of Papua, New Guinea, to compete in Brit Pluck, Green Hell, Two Million, a...
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James Hawes. The Experiment, $15.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-61519-569-5
With this pocket-size history, Hawes (Englanders and Huns) delivers a wide-ranging yet precise chronicle of political leaders who have served and shaped what is now Germany. He opens with Julius Caesar, who named the country and described a people...
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