The Lime Twig
$45.90
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
1 June 1996
Summary
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.
- Travesty is a monologue on fear and eroticism that takes place during a drive at night.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140189827 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140189823 |
| Author: | John Hawkes, Patrick McGrath, Robert Coover |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 1996 |
| Weight: | 299g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 129mm x 194mm |
| Series: | Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S. |
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John Hawkes
John Hawkes is the author of sixteen books of fiction, including Sweet William, Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade, and The Blood Oranges. He is Professor of English Emeritus at Brown University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
Robert Coover is widely regarded as one of America’s most influential living writers, author of some fifteen groundbreaking books of fiction, including Pricksongs & Descants, The Public Burning, and most recently Ghost Town. Coover has for the past decade been teaching experimental courses in hypertext and multimedia narrative at Brown University. His 1992 essay on hypertext in the New York Times Book Review, “The End of Books,” galvanized electronic literature fans around the world.
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