John Barth

• Aug-1972
• / Fantasy
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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 Bel...

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction
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George Giles encounters new people and ideas as he ascends from a goat farm to the position of Grand Tutor of the human university....

• Jun-1979
• / General Fiction
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • John Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction exploring themes of purpose and the meaning of existence. "[Barth] ran riot over literary rules and...

• Oct-1979
• / General Fiction
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"A landmark of postmodern American fiction, Letters is (as the subtitle genially informs us) ""an old time epistolary novel by seven fictitious drolls & dreamers each of which imagines himself factual"". Seven characters (including the Author himself...

• May-1982
• / General Fiction
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"Subtitled ""a romance"", Sabbatical is the story of Susan Rachel Allan Seckler, a sharp young associate professor of early American literature - part Jewish, part Gypsy, and possibly descended from Edgar Allen Poe - and her husband Fenwick Scott Key...

• Dec-1982
• / General Fiction
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This is Barth's most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is "one of the most diverting . . . to roam the world since Candide.""A feast. Dense, funny, endlessly i...

• 1984
• / Fantasy
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• Jul-1987
• / General Fiction
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"Tell me a story!" Katherine Shorter Sherritt Sagamore orders her husband Peter Sagamore -- and so lets loose a flood of tales that floats them both past encounteres with their own lives and loves, entanglements with the CIA and toxic waste, and fant...

• Jan-1991
• / General Fiction
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A National Book Award winner offers his most inventive novel to date. Journalist Simon Behler finds himself in the house of Sinbad the Sailor after being washed ashore during a sea-going adventure. Over the course of six evenings, the two take turns ...

• May-1994
• / General Fiction
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From the National Book Award Winner and author of The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor comes a novel about a middle-aged writer setting off on a voyage with a sole crewmate--his lover, friend, and wife. Reprint....

• Jul-1996
• / General Fiction
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Using the venerable literary device of the bedtime story, which links fictions as different as The Arabian Nights and Charlotte's Web, John Barth ingeniously interweaves stories from an ongoing, high-spirited but deadly serious nocturnal game of tale...

• Nov-2001
• / General Fiction
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In this novelistic romp that is by turns hilarious and brilliant, John Barth spoofs his own place in the pantheon of contemporary fiction and the generation of writers who have followed his literary trailblazing. Coming Soon!!! is the tale of two wri...

• Jan-2004
• / General Fiction
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An extended essay adapted from a speech given by Barth at Washington College's Miller Library in October 1992, at a celebration of its 200,000th volume. Illustrated with linoleum cuts by Mary Rhinelander....

• Apr-2004
• / General Fiction
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The Book of Ten Nights and a Night offers both a keen introduction to the genius of John Barth and a deeply human argument for the enduring value of literature. Gathering stories written throughout this postmodern master's long career, the collection...

• Dec-2005
• / General Fiction
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From the National Book Award winner, three linked novellas that “will stretch your mind, challenge your thoughts, and bend your reality” (Charlotte Observer).John Barth, “one of the greatest novelists of our time” (Washington Post Book World)...

• Oct-2008
• / General Fiction
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From one of our most celebrated masters, a touching, comic, deeply humane collection of linked stories about surprising developments in a gated community "I find myself inclined to set down for whomever, before my memory goes kaput altogether, som...

• Apr-2009
• / Action Adventure
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The year is 2045 and a well respected newspaper columnist, David Cohen, is offered a once in a lifetime assignment. David is accustomed to his somewhat mundane lifestyle, and suddenly finds himself in unfamiliar territory and danger. David is despera...

• Oct-2011
• / Literary
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John Barth stays true to form in Every Third Thought, written from the perspective of a character Barth introduced in his short story collection The Development.George I. Newett and his wife Amanda Todd lived in the gated community of Heron Bay Estat...

• Nov-2015
• / Literary
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When John Barth’s Lost in the Funhouse appeared in 1968, American fiction was turned on its head. Barth’s writing was not a response to the realistic fiction that characterized American literature at the time; it beckoned back to the founders of ...

• Dec-2015
• / Literary
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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, ...

• / General Fiction
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The Floating Opera and The End Of The Road are John Barth''s first two novels.  Their relationship to each other is evident not only in their ribald subject matter but in the eccentric characters and bitterly humorous tone of the narratives...

• / General Fiction
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The Floating Opera and The End Of The Road are John Barth''s first two novels.  Their relationship to each other is evident not only in their ribald subject matter but in the eccentric characters and bitterly humorous tone of the narratives...

• / General Fiction
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In The Floating Opera the narrator and central character yearns to build a boat and sail away from what he sees as a meaningless existence into a completely private life, but he manages neither to finish a boat nor to sail away....This new novel take...