A Table of Green Fields
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A Table of Green Fields includes ten stories, variously about the painter Henry Scott Tuke, the mathematician James Joseph Sylvester, Kafka, Thoreau, along with some imaginary Frenchmen and... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:081121771X
ISBN13:9780811217712
Release Date:November 1993
Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
Length:164 Pages
Weight:0.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
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Splurge on the Hardcover!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
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"
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
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 postcards to a young girl whose missing doll is, according to Mr. K., embarked on a world tour. And in each of the two long stories we meet a just-adolescent boy, discovering his own sexuality and that of the world around him, with--in one case--tragic and heart-breaking results. Can every story be "the best"? Maybe not, but in this collection, Davenport comes very close
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