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#paperback#fiction The Chess Garden is an improbable, brilliant tale about the spiritual life of a 19th century Dutch physician...the novel turns on twelve letters sent by the physician to his wife and friends back in Dayton, Ohio, at the turn of the century. They describe a visit to imaginary places, the Antipodes, where Dr. Uyterhoeven encounters fabulous creatures, has bizarre adventures and endures trails. (slight wear to outside paperback book).
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From Dayton, Ohio, to a magical land known as the Antipodes where game pieces come to life, The Chess Garden by Brooks Hansen brilliantly juxtaposes the real and the surreal. Compared to such fabulist...
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