The Lime Twig
(New York): New Directions Books, (1961).
Price: $500.00
Hardcover. First edition, hardcover issue. Introduction by Leslie A. Fiedler. Near fine with bumping at the corners in very good or better wrappers with moderate wear at the edges including nicks, tears, and creases. Inscribed to author and *Sewanee Review* editor Andrew Lytle and his wife: "For Andrew and Edna, with our love and admiration, Jack 3/12/61." The hardcover issue is surprisingly uncommon.
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John Hawkes
birth name: John Hawkes
born: 8/17/1925
died: 5/15/1998
Biography
American author whose novels achieve a dreamlike (often nightmarish) intensity through the suspension of traditional narrative constraints. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore