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The Lime Twig
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🏛 New Directions Publishing Corporation
📅 1961
📖 175 pages
🌐 English
📔 Paperback
ISBN: 9780811200653
📝 Description: The Lime Twig
An English horse race, the Golden Bowl at Aldington, provides the background for John Hawkes' exciting novel, The Lime Twig, which tells of an ingenious plot to steal and race a horse under a false name.
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John Hawkes crafts a chilling atmosphere of psychological dread in The Lime Twig, utilizing an English horse race and a high-stakes plot to steal and run a prize animal under a false name as the backdrop for a deeply unsettling nightmare. Rather than relying on traditional jump scares, the book aims for a pervasive, suffocating sense of menace and vulnerability, turning familiar landscapes into areas of quiet terror. The prose is dense, poetic, and starkly foreign, making it an ideal choice for adventurous readers of dark fiction who appreciate slow-burning psychological tension and atmospheric dread over conventional whodunits.
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