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Praise for Ewing Campbell's Work
"Madonna, Maleva, a novel whose verbal cadences and visual details are dead-on perfect...resonant with sensory experience
and attuned to the rhythms language can use to convey it."—American Book Review
“[Ewing Campbell]—like Joyce, Faulkner, and Cormac McCarthy—is intrigued by the sound and sense of words.”—Southwestern
American Literature
"Campbell’s use of language is highly charged and far from safe, presenting a very complex and intriguing picture"—Cimarron
Review
Winner of the Writer's Digest Fiction Prize, the American Literary Review Fiction Prize, and the Chris O'Malley
Fiction Prize.
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135 pp., 6 x 9
Paper, $19.95
ISBN 13: 978-0-9792091-3-0
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All the world dreams of a perfect place, where transformations reverse the toil and troubles of mundane existence and a pleasant
climate combines with sensuous abundance to satisfy one's fantasies and desires. Plutarch located this place in the Islands
of the Blest, or the Canary Islands. There, gentle breezes and soft rains caressed the land, and those who dwelt in the islands
received their bounty without effort or worry. The ancients wanted to go this place for peace and prosperity, as do the characters
who people the stories collected in AFOOT IN THE GARDEN OF ENCHANTMENTS. They are looking for miracles, hoping for transformations
that will make them whole again or give them wealth. Others live in these Islands of the Blest and partake of the sensual
while blind to the dark surrounding seas in a way that might have been suggested by W.G. Sebald when he wrote, "On the
slopes of man-made mountains, between banks and spinneys,deer with fabulous antlers grazed, and the whole incomprehensible
glory of Nature and the wonders placed in it by the hand of man was reflected in dark, unruffled waters."
AFOOT IN THE GARDEN OF ENCHANTMENTS uncovers the charm of human folly, the hopes and doubts of ordinary individuals, but
its revelations unfold amid marvelous, implausible events, which are treated as everyday occurrences by the characters who
experience them, whether in the Islands of the Blest or in the larger world discovered by those who passed through the islands
on their way to the New World.
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About Ewing Campbell
Ewing Campbell, a novelist and short story writer,
is the author of, among other works of fiction, Weave It like Nightfall, and Piranesi's
Dream: Stories. He has published work in Chicago Review, Kenyon Review,
Georgia Review, New England Review, and others. Campbell has received NEA and Dobie-Paisano fellowships,
both for fiction, and lectured in Argentina and Spain as a Fulbright fellow. In 2002, he won an American Literary Review Fiction
Prize for his short story "Tauromaquia". As a literary critic, Campbell has
published Raymond Carver: A Study of the Short Fiction (1992).
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Used by Permission
Some Fiction by Ewing Campbell Available Online
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Contact: Christopher D. White: chrispoet@gmail.com (330) 622-2928
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