Author | John Hawkes |
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Language | English |
Publication date | 1949 |
Publication place | United States |
Charivari is a 1949 novel by American writer John Hawkes. [1] Hawkes began the novel, his first, [2] in Montana while on a "working vacation". [3] Hawkes, in a 1978 conversation with John Barth, referred to the novel as his first foray into writing fiction, having previously written poetry. [4] In a 1983 interview published in the Review of Contemporary Fiction Hawkes characterized the novel as sharing themes, especially that of innocence, with his later work The Lime Twig . [5]