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A Table of Green Fields: Ten Stories
Author: Guy Davenport
Binding: Hardcover
Published: 01 December, 1993
ISBN: 0811212513
$21.95
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A Table of Green Fields: Ten Stories
by: Guy Davenport
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Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 
Splurge on the Hardcover!:
No one plays with the assumptions of a reader in terms of genre, plot, image, or even sentence structure like Davenport. This book is one of his best. And in terms of the general American literary scene, this book is one the greatest!
"Gypsy acrobats on market day":
The line above, taken from a Davenport story, perhaps suggests the sense of vibrance flowing through a "typical" Davenport story: one not only gets to go to market, but there are Gypsies there as well! Arguably the most striking and unusual stories in this collection are those that pivot around three famous men: Lawrence of Arabia [disguised as Airman Ross] in "August Blue"; Thoreau in "The Concord Sonata"; and Soren Kierkegaard in "Mr. Churchyard and the Troll." But Kafka reappears here as well, sending... more info
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