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- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
- Number of Pages: 176
- ISBN: 0547072481
- WAPI (Tower ID): 112075573
- Release Date: October 7, 2008
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #252075 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #29768 in Fiction & Literature (See Top 100 Fiction & Literature Bestsellers)
- #4773 in General (See Top 100 General Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionMore Books by John Barth (Author)Run a Quick Search on "The Development" by John Barth to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "The Development"Browse more products related to "John Barth"Review"[Barth is] able to convey at once the variegated material realities of his characters and to lance swiftly into their inner lives. He plies, as he has from the very start of his career, a gratifyingly well-textured prose, kept interesting not only by its alert depiction of psychological states but by its sly deployment of self-reflexive asides." Publisher's noteA collection of interconnected short stories follows the lives of a group of retirees living in a gated community set in Chesapeake Bay country as they find their tidy enclave thrown into turmoil by marital infidelities, a bizarre suicide pact, a decadent toga party, and the sudden destruction of the short-lived development. AnnotationJohn Barth's interconnected short-stories in THE DEVELOPMENT revolve around the lives of the residents of the Heron Bay retirement community in Maryland. As in his celebrated and groundbreaking novels (THE SOT-WEED FACTOR, CHIMERA), Barth is simultaneously attuned to the psychological realities of his characters, and also the constantly fluctuating and unstable nature of narrative itself. Buried in the heart of THE DEVELOPMENT is a tragedy that takes place at a geriatric Toga party, an event that reverberates through the other short stories, taking on new meaning and guises as it travels through the endlessly fascinating prism of Barth's prose. If You Enjoy "The Development (Hardcover)", May We Also Recommend:
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