Description
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.
Author: John Barth
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 12/18/2015
Pages: 408
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9781628971279
ISBN10: 1628971274
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
Author: John Barth
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 12/18/2015
Pages: 408
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9781628971279
ISBN10: 1628971274
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
About the Author
John Barth was born in Cambridge, Maryland in 1930. He stands alongside Thomas Pynchon as one of the giants of postwar American fiction. He is the author of The Sot-Weed Factor, The Tidewater Tales, Lost in the Funhouse, The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor and the National Book Award winner Chimera.