num_pages: 248
description: Guy Davenport's short stories are journeys through history and the imagination. Radically original and surprising, comic and sensuous, Davenport's virtuoso talent charms us into a world both familiar and strange. Whether in the timelessness of deep woods or fleeing the bloody dreamscape of battle, Davenport's characters embody life's contradictions.
language: English
title: Twelve Stories
titlecomplete: Twelve Stories
genres: Fiction, American, Short Stories
ratings_count: 40
publisher: Counterpoint