On With the Story: Stories - Hardcover
Presented as a dozen tales exchanged by a middle-aged couple on vacation, an anthology of short stories explores the connections between language and thought, art and science, and life and love
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John Barth has the paradoxical ability to turn literature on its head in a post-modern sense at the same time he employs a tour-de-force of traditional literary devices. In On with the Story, he tells a story within a story within a collection of short stories. To wit, an affluent and sophisticated retirement age couple is on vacation when the woman receives terrible news about her husband. Is he dying of cancer? Or is that another story? Have they faced death or have they not? With Barth, only the reader can say for sure, having engaged in an experience as unique as it is fascinating.
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John Barth is currently Professor Emeritus in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
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- PublisherLittle Brown & Co
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0316082635
- ISBN 13 9780316082631
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages257
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