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en-wikipedia-org-9049		The Lime Twig - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	799	77	70	The Lime Twig Wikipedia The Lime Twig First edition The Lime Twig (1961) is an experimental novel by American writer John Hawkes. The other chapters are all presented in a third-person limited style with a focus on the banal inner lives of Michael and Margaret Banks. Influential American literary critic Leslie Fiedler contributed a preface, arguing for Hawkes' greatness: "For the sake of art and the truth, [Hawkes] dissolves the rational universe which we are driven, for the sake of sanity and peace, to manufacture out of the chaos of memory, impression, reflex and fantasy." Southern writer Flannery O'Connor (a friend of Hawkes) praised the novel as well, commenting in a letter that "You suffer The Lime Twig like a dream. Novels by John Hawkes Articles with unsourced statements from December 2012 This page was last edited on 23 December 2020, at 02:54 (UTC).	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9049.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9049.txt