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The novelist presents a fictionalized account of his life, staged as an operatic cruise through memory, desire, vocation, and that life's adventures, despairs, loves, marriages, selves, and counterselves
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From Kirkus Reviews
In a reprise of old themes, haunts, and ideas, metafiction master Barth (The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor, 1991) returns to himself and his native Chesapeake Bay in this fictional memoir of a middle-aged writer embarked on an autumnal cruise. The story is told in the Barthian way, within a frame of another story--in this case, the voyage of the writer's sloop, US, south into the...
From Publishers Weekly
The author's latest "excursion through time's funhouse" is an enjoyable rumination which takes the form of a three-act opera, complete with two entr'actes and numerous "arias" and recitatives. It even opens with a "Program Note," which describes the book as "a memoir bottled in a novel." Indeed, its protagonist is a 60-ish writer of fiction named John Barth, author of such playfully imaginative novels as Giles Goat-Boy...
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- PublisherLittle Brown & Co
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0316082627
- ISBN 13 9780316082624
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages398
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