The Walking Tour - Softcover

"Kathryn Davis is brilliant." --Penelope Fitzgerald

"A brilliantly dexterous novel" (NEW YORK TIMES), "so ambitious, so
smart, so beautifully written that it is a pleasure to stand in its
light."

"Davis"s approach to novel-writing is so original, and the results so
magical, that trying to review her fiction in a thousand words on a
tight deadline feels . . . doomed."

"Davis's approach to novel-writing is so original, and the results so
magical, that trying to review her fiction in a thousand words on a
tight deadline feels . . . doomed."

"I cannot say how much I admire Kathryn Davis and her latest triumph,
THE WALKING TOUR. The book is so beautifully written it takes one's
breath away -- brilliant in every way, and often delightfully funny."
-- Sigrid Nunez

" A brilliantly dexterous novel" (NEW YORK TIMES), " so ambitious, so
smart, so beautifully written that it is a pleasure to stand in its
light."

" Davis' s approach to novel-writing is so original, and the results so
magical, that trying to review her fiction in a thousand words on a
tight deadline feels . . . doomed."

" I cannot say how much I admire Kathryn Davis and her latest triumph,
THE WALKING TOUR. The book is so beautifully written it takes one' s
breath away -- brilliant in every way, and often delightfully funny."
-- Sigrid Nunez

& quot; A brilliantly dexterous novel& quot; (NEW YORK TIMES), & quot; so ambitious, so smart, so beautifully written that it is a pleasure to stand in its light.& quot;

& quot; Davis ' s approach to novel-writing is so original, and the results so magical, that trying to review her fiction in a thousand words on a tight deadline feels . . . doomed.& quot;

Kathryn Davis is the recipient of a Kafka Prize for fiction by an American woman and the 1999 Morton Dauwen Zabel Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters. Davis teaches at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York and lives with her husband and daughter in Vermont.