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Highlights
- A National Book Award winner, this bawdy, comic trio of novellas finds John Barth injecting his signature wit into three tales many times told: that of Scheherazade, storyteller of the Thousand and One Nights; of Perseus, slayer of Medusa; and of Bellerophon, rider of Pegasus and slayer of the Chimera.
- About the Author: John Barth is our most celebrated postmodernist.
- 302 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Fantasy
- Series Name: Dalkey Archive Essentials
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Book Synopsis
A National Book Award winner, this bawdy, comic trio of novellas finds John Barth injecting his signature wit into three tales many times told: that of Scheherazade, storyteller of the Thousand and One Nights; of Perseus, slayer of Medusa; and of Bellerophon, rider of Pegasus and slayer of the Chimera.Review Quotes
"Rich, hilarious [. . .] There's every chance in the world that John Barth is a genius."-Playboy
About the Author
John Barth is our most celebrated postmodernist. From the appearance in 1956 of The Floating Opera, his first published book, through the essay collection Final Fridays, released in 2012, he has published at least two books in each of the seven decades spanning his writerly life thus far. Thrice nominated for the National Book Award--The Floating Opera, Lost in the Funhouse, and Chimera, which won in 1973--Barth has received the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, and the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. A native of Maryland's Eastern Shore, he taught for twenty-two years in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He now lives in Florida with his wife Shelly.Dimensions (Overall): 8.4 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .8 Inches (D)
Weight: .85 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 302
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Fantasy
Series Title: Dalkey Archive Essentials
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Theme: Historical
Format: Paperback
Author: John Barth
Language: English
Street Date: September 19, 2023
TCIN: 1003544342
UPC: 9781628974454
Item Number (DPCI): 247-24-1542
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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