9780618257300
Coming Soon!!!
John Barth
ISBN 13: 9780618257300
Publisher: Mariner Books
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Softcover
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Two writers, a retiring novelist and an aspiring writer of hypertext, compete to create a novel of a floating opera and explore the cultural lines between print and electronic fiction, and modernism and postmoderism. Reprint.
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"Although COMING SOON!!! didn't make it in time for Y2K, Barth has tried hard to capture the moment by imitating the devices of Internet fiction, offering point-and-click buttons and hotlinked words. But this feels like a fruitless gimmick, since otherwise the pagebound story proceeds in a pretty straightforward way....His hyperintellectual regard for his earlier books seems fetishistic, and what lax attention he directs to the real world is warped by this literary narcissism."
Brian Evenson, Bookforum, Fall 2001
Review:"[U]nderneath all the capering, Barth's tackling all the big themes here, so many in fact that an overstuffed reader might wish he'd left a couple over for next time. In addition to, natch, itself, COMING SOON!!! is about every imaginable kind of death: of the author, of the novel, even of the last millennium....Whenever the whole enterprise threaten to capsize under its cuteness, Barth's good old-fashioned expressive powers usually bail him out. To read this lifelong sailor as he describes the simple pleasure of mooring a cutter amid the evensong of waves and waterfowl, is to remember that Picasso, before he invented Cubism, was one hell of a draftsman."
David Kipen, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, 11/25/2001
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