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      The Lime Works

      by Thomas Bernhard
      Published
      Mar 2010
      Main Genre
      Literary Literary
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      256
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      For twenty years, Konrad has imprisoned himself and his crippled wife in an abandoned lime works where he's conducted odd auditory experiments and prepared to write his masterwork, The Sense of Hearing. As the story begins, he's just blown the head off his wife with the Mannlicher carbine she kept strapped to her wheelchair. The murder and the bizarre life that led to it are the subject of a mass of hearsay related by an unnamed life-insurance salesman in a narrative as mazy, byzantine, and mysterious as the lime works, Konrad's sanctuary and tomb.

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      General Fiction

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      Literary

      Themes

      Visionary & Metaphysical

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      First Edition Mar 2010 Vintage ISBN13 9781400077588 ISBN10 1400077583
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      Jan 2013 Knopf ISBN13 9780307833532 ISBN10 0307833534
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      Jan 2013 Vintage ISBN10 B00ALBR77M
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