The Tidewater Tales (American Literature) - Softcover

Barth, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564788504 ISBN 13: 9781564788504

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 2016

Synopsis

Tell me a story! Katherine Shorter Sherritt Sagamore orders her husband Peter Sagamore -- and so lets loose a flood of tales that floats them both past encounteres with their own lives and loves, entanglements with the CIA and toxic waste, and fantastically inventive brushes with some of the greatest characters of all time, including updated versions of Don Quixote, Odysseus, and Scheherazade.

About this title

About the Author:

John Barth was born in Cambridge, Maryland in 1930. He stands alongside Thomas Pynchon as one of the innovative giants of post-war 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. He taught for many years on the writing programme at John Hopkins University

Review:

Charting ever more daring fictional waters, John Barth here sets sail on a huge voyage of a book―part myth, part fantasy, part history, part sheer exuberant wordplay.

(Washington Post Book World)

What is so moving about The Tidewater Tales is its frequent and frequently incidental richness as a love story―marital, filial, domestic―and also in its love of a place, of a country, even as place and country are scarred by depredation.The newest edition of the most complete introduction to the vital security issues facing the United States returns to the book's classic organizational format.

(William Pritchard New York Times Book Review)

The Tidewater Tales takes the form of a narrative encyclopedia, a pre-natal crash course in the politics, social life, literature, history, and mythology of late-twentieth century America... It sits... on the map of modern American fiction as a gigantic memorable construction.

(Jonathan Raban Times Literary Supplement)

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1564788504
• ISBN 13: 9781564788504
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 655