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A Backwoods Odyssey; Two noble misfits ride into the Vermont mountains to defend a damsel in distress.
From: The Washington Post
Date: 20080113
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GO WITH ME
By Castle Freeman Jr.
Steerforth. 160 pp. $21.95 Chivalry isn't dead; it has just retreated to the backwoods of Vermont. Far beyond the range of leaf- peepers, quaint B&Bs and wealthy liberals lie millions of acres of dark forest, the kind of rich soil that chivalric romance has grown in for centuries. James Fenimore Cooper first saw the possibilities of moving the knights errant of medieval Europe to New England's woods, and now Castle Freeman Jr. performs an equally radical transplant with Go With Me, his oddly witty tale of a damsel in distress.
The story takes place on a ...
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