This powerful short novel describes the events of a single afternoon. Alwyn Tower, an American expatriate and sometime novelist, is staying with a friend outside of Paris, when a well-heeled, itinerant Irish couple drops in—with Lucy, their trained hawk, a restless, sullen, disturbingly totemic presence. Lunch is prepared, drink flows. A masquerade, at once harrowing and farcical, begins.
A work of classical elegance and concision, The Pilgrim Hawk stands with Faulkner’s The Bear as one of the finest American short novels: a beautifully crafted story that is also a poignant evocation of the implacable power of love.
- ISBN10 1299572650
- ISBN13 9781299572652
- Publish Date 1 January 2011 (first published 1 December 1990)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 1 April 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint New York Review of Books
- Format eBook
- Language English