The Blood Oranges is a 1971 novel by American writer John Hawkes.

The novel belongs to a triad, along with Death, Sleep, & the Traveler and Travesty.

[1] The story takes place in a fictionalized version of Illyria.

[2][3] Webster Schott, writing in Life, referred to the novel as "...poetry passing as fiction, intellectualism doubling as sex daydream.

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