The lime twig

John Hawkes

first published 1961 New Directions, 1961 175 pages

Penguin twentieth-century classics

For nearly fifty years and in more than fourteen novels, John Hawkes has been creating his "landscapes of the imagination" and enriching the form and language of the American novel. Bringing together three early novels, this volume displays Hawkes's mastery as a prose stylist and the range and power of his gifts as an innovative writer. The Lime Twig (1961), set in postwar London, is the story of a young man who, un...

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The lime twig edition · 1996 · Penguin Books · 352 pages
The lime twig edition · 1970 · Sphere · 155 pages
The lime twig edition · 1968 · Chatto & Windus · 175 pages
The lime twig edition · 1961 · New Directions · 175 pages

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