Adrián Astur Álvarez reviewed The lime twig by John Hawkes
Review of 'The lime twig' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
A dream pop novel of lucid imagery all amounting to an impression of story yet closer to the way we experience events: filtered through the desires and fantasies we bring to them. What is inscrutable behavior for the reader is merely behavior motivated by a collection of liminal differences not so different from our own probably inscrutable behavior, so that all transactions of experience are relative, even the physical ones. In fact, the relationship between physical manifestations of internal imagination and how the seemingly incontrovertible truth of violence is as messy and puzzling as the shadow worlds of psychology they are borne from becomes a larger project within a straightforward crime story about a heist gone wrong. This novel is everything I strive for in my own work and the most intriguing way to "make it new" in matters of genre. I loved every part of it.
I've found a …
A dream pop novel of lucid imagery all amounting to an impression of story yet closer to the way we experience events: filtered through the desires and fantasies we bring to them. What is inscrutable behavior for the reader is merely behavior motivated by a collection of liminal differences not so different from our own probably inscrutable behavior, so that all transactions of experience are relative, even the physical ones. In fact, the relationship between physical manifestations of internal imagination and how the seemingly incontrovertible truth of violence is as messy and puzzling as the shadow worlds of psychology they are borne from becomes a larger project within a straightforward crime story about a heist gone wrong. This novel is everything I strive for in my own work and the most intriguing way to "make it new" in matters of genre. I loved every part of it.
I've found a new favorite author.
