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Guy Davenports story collection A Table of Green Fields (New Directions, 1993) was praised for its amazing artistry and stratospheric literary intelligence ( Kirkus Reviews ). As The Washington Post noted, It draws one in with its austere, beautifully formal sentences, its rich pattern of memory. In Davenports follow-up collection, The Cardiff Team , the stories continue in this vein, their texts a wondrous collage of persons, events, and ideas from cultural history. The central theme is that of tribeless people joining, or trying to join, a team, a tribe, or a society. In The Messengers, Franz Kafka visits the Jungborn Health Spa in the Harz mountains and tries to feel comfortable in his own skin. In Boys Smell Like Oranges, a soccer team of boys from Henry de Montherlants Les Olympiques is its own contained tribe. The Cardiff Team perfectly displays Guy Davenports illustrious prose and his audacity; confirming The New Yorker s assertion that his is among the very few, truly original voices now audible in American letters. Ten stories, many on homosexual themes, some with intellectual overtones. The subjects range from a sex-thirsty boy scout troop leader, to a writer's musings on God while in a spa for nudists The messengers Dinner at the Bank of England Veranda hung with wisteria Boys smell like oranges The meadow lark The table The river Concert champêtre in D minor Home The Cardiff team.