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These are works of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
“The Meadow is reprinted through the kind permission of New Directions, which published it (under the title “Wild Clover”) in New Directions 50. “Pyrrhon of Elis,” “Bronze Leaves and Red,” and “Les Exploits de Nat Pinkerton de Jour en Jour” were published together as Trois Caprices, in 1981, by the Pace Trust of Louisville, Kentucky. “Les Exploits de Nat Pinkerton de Jour en Jour” was originally published in the Mississippi Review. “We Often Think of Lenin at the Clothespin Factory” is reprinted, with permission, from Conjunctions. “The Bicycle Rider” was first published as a book by Red Ozier Press, in a different version. The allusions in this story to the Danish film Du er ikke alene are deliberate. “Jonah” was first published as a book by Nadja Press. “The Ringdove Sign” is reprinted from Parnassus.
Copyright © 1987 by Guy Davenport
Cover design by Mauricio Díaz
ISBN: 978-1-5040-1964-4
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