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Barth, John Chimera
New York, New York, U.S.A. Random House 1972 0394481895 / 9780394481890 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good + Very Good +
A photo of this book is available. Very-good+, clean copy of this 1972 hardback. Stated First Edition. Publisher's remainder stamp on bottom. NO price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $6.95. Full-page photo of the author on back of dustcover. Dustcover shows light wear (NO tears). Gold boards with metallic-silver lettering (clean and bright). Red endpapers. 309 pages. Tight spine, clean pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Synopsis In CHIMERA John Barth injects his signature wit into the tales of Scheherezade of the Thousand and One Nights, Perseus, the slayer of Medusa, and Bellerophon, who tamed the winged horse Pegasus. In a book that the Washington Post called "stylishly maned, tragically songful, and serpentinely elegant," Barth retells these tales from varying perspectives, examining the myths' relationship to reality and their resonance with the contemporary world. A winner of the National Book Award, this feisty, witty, sometimes bawdy book provoked Playboy to comment, "There's every chance in the world that John Barth is a genius." Biography JOHN BARTH is the author of numerous works of fiction, including The Sot-Weed Factor, The Tidewater Tales, Lost in the Funhouse, The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor, the National Book Award winner Chimera, and most recently The Book of Ten Nights and a Night. He taught for many years in the writing program at Johns Hopkins University.
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Barth, John On With the Story: Stories
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Little Brown & Company / Back Bay Books 1997 0316083593 / 9780316083591 Trade Paperback Very Good +
Very-nice, clean condition - NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine - Bright pages. 257 pages. 14 pages have light highlighting/writing. Does NOT interfere with reading. NO tears. Using the venerable literary device of the bedtime story, which links fictions as different as The Arabian Nights and Charlotte's Web, John Barth ingeniously interweaves stories from an ongoing, high-spirited but deadly serious nocturnal game of tale-telling by a more or less desperate loving couple vacationing at their "last resort." As Scheherazade spun out her bedtime stories to save her life, the narrator of On with the Story spins out his to postpone The End, and to explore en route - wittily, mournfully, tenderly - love in modern life and postmodern literature. As the narrative cycles through the lifescapes of his subjects' stories, Barth affords a view both panoramic and microscopic of our own landscape. With eye and pen both sharp and beautiful he depicts love ranging from the obsessively puppy through the sophisticatedly fatigued, the delusionally murderous, even the quantum-physical, to the superbly fulfilled.
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Barth, John On With the Story: Stories
Little Brown & Company 1996 0316082635 / 9780316082631 First Edition Hard Cover Near-Fine Near-Fine
Stated First Edition. Remainder mark present. NO price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $23.95. Dustcover is clean and bright (NO tears). Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 257 pages. Synopsis Using the venerable literary device of the bedtime story, which links fictions as different as The Arabian Nights and Charlotte's Web, John Barth ingeniously interweaves stories from an ongoing, high-spirited but deadly serious nocturnal game of tale-telling by a more or less desperate loving couple vacationing at their "last resort." As Scheherazade spun out her bedtime stories to save her life, the narrator of On with the Story spins out his to postpone The End, and to explore en route - wittily, mournfully, tenderly - love in modern life and postmodern literature. As the narrative cycles through the lifescapes of his subjects' stories, Barth affords a view both panoramic and microscopic of our own landscape. With eye and pen both sharp and beautiful he depicts love ranging from the obsessively puppy through the sophisticatedly fatigued, the delusionally murderous, even the quantum-physical, to the superbly fulfilled. Michael Ross John Barth, arguably the most didactic of modern writers, returns to short fiction in this shrewd, indelible (and maddeningly Barthian) book about a pair of vacationing "late-afternoon late-life lovers" who are "post-coitally lassitudinous and sweat-wet, skin to skin." Leapfrogging from voice to voice, deftly weaving plots within plots, Barth spins On With the Story into a comically incisive meditation on love in life and literature by borrowing from Scheherazade and using the bedtime story as his vehicle. The couple in the novel -- who resemble Barth and his real-life spouse, a former student of his named Shelley Rosenberg -- tell each other tales while staying at their "last resort" (a phrase that, finally, deserves to remain a teasing secret). While the stories primarily explore the panorama of modern love -- its curious arrivals, its grim exits and its steadfast presence with this couple -- the book's autobiographical nature always hovers near the surface. In one of the book's early chapters, for example, we're witness to a lecture by an unnamed professor before a gathering of students who are awaiting a "mystery guest." It's a chance for Barth to expand on his theories of story writing, in particular the need for solid, worthy endings. It's as good as a lecture at Johns Hopkins, with Barth charmingly (and testily) advancing the notion that a story's ending is a sign of whether "its author pays (or fails to pay) his narrative/dramatic bills." Writing in a style that blends the unapologetically academic and the mischievously felicitous, Barth wields his intellect like a sword in On With the Story. Yet his gifts for exploring the emotional terrain of the human condition are never dulled; they remain, like this remarkable book, vibrant and engaged. -- Salon
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