Cover of Death, Sleep the Traveler: Novel

Death, Sleep the Traveler: Novel

The author of seven full-length novels, several plays, and numerous short fictions, John Hawkes over the course of two and a half decades has won international acclaim. His most recent novel, Death, Sleep & The Traveleris about a middle-aged Dutchman, his dissolving marriage, his involvement in two sexual triangles, his obsession with the murder he is accused of having committed on a pleasure cruise.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 179 pages

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