The Lime Twig

by John Hawkes

Book Overview

But it would be unfair to the reader to reveal what happens when a gang of professional crooks gets wind of the scheme and moves to muscle in on this bettors' dream of a long-odds situation. Worked out with all the meticulous detail, terror, and suspense of a nightmare, the tale is, on one level, comparable to a Graham Greene thriller; on another, it explores a group of people, their relationships fears, and loves. For as Leslie A. Fiedler says in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811200655
• ISBN13: 9780811200653
• Release Date: January 1961
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.5" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

An experience well worth the effort

Each week on a Monday I go to the library and read plots. This is a way that I get ideas for my own writing. One day I ran across one of the most interesting and imaginative plots I had ever seen and of course I had to get the book. John Hawkes, a Gothic novelist, must be the least read novelist of substantial merit that I know. His story is quite like the consciousness we live but which is not often recorded in books - untidy, half-focused, disarrayed and incoherent. And yet, and yet, he keeps our interest because his story is real. And so Sidney Slyter says go read The Lime Twig and see if you don't agree that it is one of the most perfect novels of our time.