John Hawkes (1) (1925–1998)
Auteur van The Lime Twig
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Author John Hawkes was born in Stamford, Connecticut on August 17, 1925. During World War II, he joined the American Field Service and was an ambulance driver in Italy and Germany from the summer of 1944 to the summer of 1945. He taught at Brown University for thirty years. He wrote eighteen toon meer novels, four plays, and a volume of poetry during his lifetime. His first novel, The Cannibal, was published in 1949. His other works include The Lime Twig, The Beetle Leg, and Virginie: Her Two Lives. His novel Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade won France's Prix Medicis Étranger in 1986. He died on May 15, 1998. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Hawkes, John Clendennin Burne, Jr.
- Geboortedatum
- 1925-08-17
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1998-05-15
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Stamford, Connecticut, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Providence, Rhode Island, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Stamford, Connecticut, USA (birth)
- Opleiding
- Harvard University
- Beroepen
- novelist
teacher
playwright
short-story writer - Organisaties
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1980)
Brown University - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Lannan Literary Award (Fiction, 1990)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1962)
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- Populariteit
- #9,465
- Waardering
- 3.5
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- ISBNs
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But they are very different reads. The 158 pound marriage is very prosaic, the characters have backstories, and specific things they want. This book is... it is a floating word cloud trying to capture strange feelings through bloated prose. The narrative flits around at different points in time, the story is woven from a surreal patchwork of scenes. It is very sensual, with hyperfocus on details.
I found myself fixating on what the author was trying to do. Was he really trying to show Cyril as an enlightened future? Or was he really expecting the reader to find Cyril entitled and repulsive, an unreliable narrator we should all hate? I mean, the book ends in tragedy, it's not a 'do this and everything will be great for you', but is the tragedy driven by Cyril casually taking what he wants, or by Hugh trapped in an unenlightened world view? Or is it truly not judging, just showing what happens when two different families meet and interact?
Both the women feel a bit like cyphers, mostly there for us to explore the men's emotions. The elder child gets very little screen time, but is painfully drawn, that angry suspicion of Cyril and how he is messing up her family.
I found it a slog to get through at points, the very detailed florid prose, the constantly having to reorientate myself in the timestream, the fact that the characters are quite unlikable to me. But it has some powerful and heady scenes.… (meer)