{"product_id":"a-table-of-green-fields-guy-davenport-9780811212519","title":"A Table of Green Fields: Stories","description":"\u003cem\u003eA Table of Green Fields\u003c\/em\u003e includes ten stories, variously about the painter Henry Scott Tuke, the mathematician James Joseph Sylvester, Kafka, Thoreau, along with some imaginary Frenchmen and Scandinavians, among others. Calculating the infinite in the finite, tracing geometries of desire, placing the obdurate world in an uncustomary light, each of these stories opens out its own world. Without giving up the plot or character of the traditional short story, Guy Davenport's inventions are complex events in which ideas and cultural history are a kind of music to which the characters dance. Despite the fractal, syncopated \u003cem\u003ecollage\u003c\/em\u003e of his narrative style, Davenport's prose is objective, terse, and transparent. A constant theme in this book is the transmission of the past as an imaginative act; hence the title, Falstaff's dying vision of \"a table of green fields,\" probably a mishearing of his recitation of the Twenty-third Psalm, corrected by editors to \"he babbled of green fields,\" a symbol of all fiction, an art that must be exact about the uncertain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Guy Davenport\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811212513\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811212519\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.33h x 5.82w x 0.82d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/1993","brand":"Guy Davenport","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":50546086609151,"sku":"9780811212519","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_24ead3a6-31f2-46b7-bf0c-c300311984ea.jpg?v=1790535137","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-table-of-green-fields-guy-davenport-9780811212519","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}