- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; New edition edition (September 1993)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0801846951
- ISBN-13: 978-0801846953
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 318 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,141,815 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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These eight stories by Guy Davenport are extraordinary. His fiction becomes a historical and linguistic collage, "assemblages," he has said, "of history and necessary fiction". We follow time through Thebes under Spartan rule, the Athens of Diogenes, a Civil War field hospital, Bordeaux, Bologna, and the English countryside in the 20th century. Mixtures of myth and fable, these tales have their origins in Plutarch, Montaigne, The Acts of the Apostles, Theokritos, and the daily newspaper.
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Hermes laid back his jackrabbit ears and looked around at me with his girlish eyes as much as to say that, yes, as long as my playing took us to the patch of nettles and thistles out by the Consular Road I could ride. Read the first page
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Hermes laid back his jackrabbit ears and looked around at me with his girlish eyes as much as to say that, yes, as long as my playing took us to the patch of nettles and thistles out by the Consular Road I could ride. Read the first page
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