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  The Village on Horseback: Prose and Verse, 2003-2008 (Paperback) By (author) Jesse Ball

  

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  Short Description for The Village on Horseback"The Village on Horseback" features mesmerizing new work from the author of "Samedi the Deafness" and "The Way Through Doors, " one of the "New Yorker's" Best Books of 2009. This collection of new pieces by experimental writer Jesse Ball is a philosophical recasting of myth and legend. Unearthing parables from the compost heap of oral tradition, folklore, literature, and popular culture, "The Vill
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  • Publisher: Milkweed Editions
  • Published: 28 July 2011
  • Format: Paperback 360 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781571314420 ISBN 10: 1571314423
  • Sales rank: 253,870

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• "The Village on Horseback" features mesmerizing new work from the author of "Samedi the Deafness" and "The Way Through Doors, " one of the "New Yorker's" Best Books of 2009. This collection of new pieces by experimental writer Jesse Ball is a philosophical recasting of myth and legend. Unearthing parables from the compost heap of oral tradition, folklore, literature, and popular culture, "The Village on Horseback" can be read as a sort of fabulist's compendium by an author who has been called charming, lyrical, fanciful, and "disturbingly original."