Da Vinci's Bicycle

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Esteemed writer and translator Guy Davenport's brilliant story collection, firstpublished in 1979, is recognized today as a classic of American fiction. Written with tremendous wit, intelligence, and verve, the stories are based on historical figures whose endeavors were too early, too late, or went against the grain of their time.
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Overview

Esteemed writer and translator Guy Davenport's brilliant story collection, firstpublished in 1979, is recognized today as a classic of American fiction. Written with tremendous wit, intelligence, and verve, the stories are based on historical figures whose endeavors were too early, too late, or went against the grain of their time.
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Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
First published in 1979, this acclaimed story collection features such characters as Gertrude Stein, Richard Nixon and the great Leonardo himself. (May)
Library Journal
This title collects ten short stories "full of allusion and linguistic dazzle." The stories take famous people, e.g., Richard Nixon, Leonardo Da Vinci, and James Joyce, and speculates on how they "relate to contemporary life" (LJ 5/15/79).
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780811213509
  • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Publication date: 5/28/1997
  • Series: Classics Series
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 185
  • Sales rank: 1,339,456
  • Product dimensions: 5.22 (w) x 7.95 (h) x 0.51 (d)

Table of Contents

The Richard Nixon Freischutz Rag

C. Musonius Rufus
The Wooden Dove ofArchytas
John Charles Tapner
Au Tombeau de Charles Fourier
The Haile Selassie Funeral Train
Ithaka
The Invention of Photography in Toledo
The Antiquities of Elis
A Field of Snow on a Slope of the Rosenberg

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