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The Development (Hardcover)

By: John Barth (Author)


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"[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 note

A 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.

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John 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.



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