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The Lime Twig

The Lime Twig( )
Author: Hawkes, John
Introduction by: McGrath, Patrick
Preface by: Coover, Robert
ISBN:978-0-14-018982-7
Publication Date:Jun 1996
Publisher:Penguin Publishing Group
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $24.00
Book Description:

Three early novels by John Hawkes This volume brings together three early novels by John Hawkes. The Lime Twig is set in the underworld of postwar London; Second Skin is a tale of suicide and new life on two mythical islands; and Travesty is a monologue on fear and eroticism that takes place during a drive at night. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking...
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Book Details
Pages:384
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Psychological
Fiction / Horror
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.06 x 7.64 x 0.97 Inches
Book Weight:0.592 Pounds
Author Biography
Hawkes, John (Author)
Author John Hawkes was born in Stamford, Connecticut on August 17, 1925. During World War II, he joined the American Field Service and was an ambulance driver in Italy and Germany from the summer of 1944 to the summer of 1945. He taught at Brown University for thirty years. He wrote eighteen novels, four plays, and a volume of poetry during his lifetime. His first novel, The Cannibal, was published in 1949. His other works include The Lime Twig, The Beetle Leg, and Virginie: Her Two Lives. His novel Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade won France's Prix Medicis Étranger in 1986. He died on May 15, 1998.

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