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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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"Gypsy acrobats on market day",
By A Customer
This review is from: A Table of Green Fields: Ten Stories (Hardcover)
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
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Splurge on the Hardcover!,
By matthew robinson (UNI, Iowa) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Table of Green Fields: Ten Stories (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!
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A Table of Green Fields: Ten Stories by Guy Davenport (Hardcover - Dec. 1993)
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