The Frog
John Hawkes. Penguin Books, $11.95 (208pp) ISBN 978-0-14-025299-6
A swallowed frog becomes the lifelong companion of a French child in Hawkes's picaresque work. (Sept.)
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Reviewed on: 09/01/1997
Genre: Fiction
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