John Barth

Once Upon a Time - A Floating Opera

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John Barth, a moderately successful novelist just turned sixty, decides to take a sail on Chesapeake Bay with his wife, but a tropical storm forces them deep into the Maryland tidal marshes. Lost, Barth takes out his dinghy to search for a way home, but becomes embarked instead on a quest through the murkier regions of his own memory-a semi-memoir, staged as an operatic cruise through desire, vocation, despair, love, marriage, selves, and counterselves.

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ISBN: 978-1-62897-127-9
EAN: 9781628971279
Produktnummer: 18106603
Verlag: Dalkey Archive Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 408 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.8 cm 666 g
Reihenbandnummer: American Literature Series
Gewicht: 666

Über den Autor

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.