nabokov, salinger, updike, hawkes, carlyle, browne are some of my favourite prose stylists. looking for more.
some excerpts from John Hawkes' The Lime Twig:
"Missing one front wheel, a tiny tar-painted lorry passed in dreadful crawl and the bare hub of its broken axle screeched and sent off sparks against the stones."
and
"And all through the blistering snowy night my hands were drenching the angora white yarn of a tasseled shawl, twisting it like a young girl's lock of hair."
some excerpts from John Hawkes' The Lime Twig:
"Missing one front wheel, a tiny tar-painted lorry passed in dreadful crawl and the bare hub of its broken axle screeched and sent off sparks against the stones."
and
"And all through the blistering snowy night my hands were drenching the angora white yarn of a tasseled shawl, twisting it like a young girl's lock of hair."