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Da Vinci's Bicycle: Ten Stories (New Directions Classics)
Author: Guy Davenport
Binding: Paperback
Published: 01 May, 1997
ISBN: 0811213501
$11.11
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Da Vinci's Bicycle: Ten Stories (New Directions Classics)
by: Guy Davenport
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Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 
Not the kind of book you would really want to read: 
Obscure genius is difficult to comprehend in the first place. This author wants us to explore with him the depths of such genius. Sorry. Not impressed. Nixon should certainly not be included. But if you were going to include mad evil geniuses, why not Adolf Hitler instead of Nixon? And who exactly does the author anticipate will be his readers yearning for this obscure knowledge and insight? Sorry again. I can't answer that question either. I have no idea. My guess is that Guy Davenport will continue to... more info
"Preposterous that a shoe would go the journey of a foot": 
If the story is good enough, a story collection can be worth buying simply for the one. "A Field of Snow on a Slope of the Rosenberg," which features German author Robert Walser [whom I haven't read], is that good, but it is not the only story in this marvelous volume worth owning. "A Field of Snow" jumps among 3 times in Walser's life--the presumed present, when he is riding in a hot-air balloon; his stay in a mental institution; and his time as a butler for a "dotty" German lord. In all of these Walser is... more info
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