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The Jules Verne Steam Balloon. Nine Stories by Guy Davenport. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987.
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The Jules Verne Steam Balloon
The Jules Verne Steam Balloon. Nine Stories by Guy Davenport. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987.
Contents:
- The Meadow
- Pyrrhon of Elis
- We Often Think of Lenin at the Clothespin Factory
- Bronze Leaves and Red
- The Bicycle Rider
- Les Exploits de Nat Pinkerton de Jour en Jour
- The Jules Verne Steam Balloon
- Jonah
- The Ringdove Sign
Acknowledgements:
- '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 Najda Press.
- 'The Ringdove Sign' is reprinted from Parnassus.
Dedication: "For my friend, HUMPHRY, 1971-1986"
Dust jacket illustration: Man's First Ascent (The Bettman Archive) (dust jacket rear inner fold)
Note: Joan Crane in her Guy Davenport: A Descriptive Bibliography, notes (p. 109) that four stories in JVSB comprise the second part of a trilogy begun with "Apples and Pears: Het Erewhonisch Schetsboek: Messidor -- Vendémiaire 1981" in Apples and Pears (1984). The stories making up the second part of the trilogy are: "The Meadow", "The Bicycle Rider", "The Jules Verne Steam Balloon", and "The Ringdove Sign". All were published initially in magazines and journals, then gathered in The Jules Verne Steam Balloon (1987). The trilogy concludes with "Wo es war, soll ich werden" first published in The Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers (1990).
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