The Cannibal: Novel

by Hawkes, John

She did as she was told.

  By John Hawkes

  THE BEETLE LEG

  THE GOOSE ON THE GRAVE & THE OWL

  THE LIME TWIG

  THE OWL

  SECOND SKIN

  THE INNOCENT PARTY (plays)

  LUNAR LANDSCAPES

  THE BLOOD ORANGES

  DEATH, SLEEP & THE TRAVELER

  TRAVESTY

  VIRGINIE: HER TWO LIVES

  HUMORS OF BLOOD & SKIN: A JOHN HAWKES READER

  Copyright © 1949, 1962

  by New Directions Publishing Corporation

  Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 49-48130

  First published as ND Paperbook No. 123

  (eISBN: 978-0-8112-2267-2)

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  Published simultaneously in Canada

  by Penguin Books Canada Limited

  Book design by Gilda Kuhlman

  New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin

  by New Directions Publishing Corporation,

  80 Eighth Avenue, New York 10011.