Skip to main content alibris logo

The Village on Horseback: Prose and Verse, 2003-2008

by

Write The First Customer Review
The Village on Horseback: Prose and Verse, 2003-2008 - Ball, Jesse
Filter Results
Shipping
Item Condition
Seller Rating
Other Options
Change Currency

"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, ...

loading
The Village on Horseback: Prose and Verse, 2003-2008 2011, Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis, MN

ISBN-13: 9781571314420

Trade paperback