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Title
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Everything That Has Been Shall Be Again: The Reincarnation Fables of John Gilgun
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Description
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With Nine Wood Engravings by Michael McCurdy
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Creator
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Gilgun, John
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:02:09Z
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2001-06
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1981
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:02:09Z
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Date Issued
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1981
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Abstract
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These nine pieces surprised me. Fables might not be the best category for them. They are a delightful exercise in imaginative empathy. The trick is reincarnation: it gets the author inside each of the nine animals. What the reader finds in each case is not really a simple story, but a variety of genres, including fantasy, prayer, reminiscence, monologue, religious apologia, complaint, and diatribe. I found myself saying Wow! to piece after piece. That Michael McCurdy illustrates them is not such a surprise to me, since my reaction is much like that to the other work for which I have his illustrations, Aesop's Forest by Robert Coover (1986). Perhaps the most fascinating piece of all for me is Cow, which turns out to be the reminiscences of Thelma R. Hodge, who lived near Joplin, Missouri. Second place for me goes to Fox, which is the one-sided conversation of a jaded fox with a newspaper-reporter goose named Greta whom he and his brethren are preparing to devour.
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Identifier
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0931460131
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3976 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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The Bieler Press
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St. Paul
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Subject
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PS3557.I353 E93 1981
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole