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Chimera - (Dalkey Archive Essentials) by John Barth (Paperback)

Name: Chimera - (Dalkey Archive Essentials) by John Barth (Paperback)
Brand: Dalkey Archive Press
SKU: 1003544342
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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.

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"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.

Specifications

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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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.8 inches length x 5.5 inches width x 8.4 inches height

Estimated ship weight: 0.85 pounds

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