false 8113 24835 1903809509 9781903809501 73 <![CDATA[The Sot-Weed Factor]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167544373m/24835.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167544373s/24835.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24835.The_Sot_Weed_Factor 4.20 477 8113 3.88 3744 393 1960 24836 0385240899 9780385240895 50 <![CDATA[The Floating Opera and The End of the Road]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1238385307m/24836.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1238385307s/24836.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24836.The_Floating_Opera_and_The_End_of_the_Road 4.06 618 8113 3.88 3744 393 1996 12885 0385240872 9780385240871 54 <![CDATA[Lost in the Funhouse]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12885.Lost_in_the_Funhouse 3.78 618 8113 3.88 3744 393 1968 144629 0385240864 9780385240864 32 <![CDATA[Giles Goat Boy]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172164587m/144629.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172164587s/144629.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144629.Giles_Goat_Boy 3.76 359 Wescac computer system that threatens to  destroy his community in this brilliant  "fantasy of theology, sociology, and sex" (Time).]]> 8113 3.88 3744 393 1966 24840 0618131701 9780618131709 20 <![CDATA[Chimera]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167544375m/24840.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167544375s/24840.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24840.Chimera 3.68 314 8113 3.88 3744 393 1972 469083 0553242768 9780553242768 25 <![CDATA[The End of the Road]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186334245m/469083.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186334245s/469083.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/469083.The_End_of_the_Road 3.89 224 8113 3.88 3744 393 1958 144634 0553201778 9780553201772 16 <![CDATA[The Floating Opera]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144634.The_Floating_Opera 4.01 191 8113 3.88 3744 393 1957 24843 061813171X 9780618131716 7 <![CDATA[The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167544376m/24843.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167544376s/24843.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24843.The_Last_Voyage_of_Somebody_the_Sailor 3.80 127 8113 3.88 3744 393 1991 368887 0316923354 9780316923354 24 <![CDATA[Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174181512m/368887.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174181512s/368887.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368887.Beautiful_Swimmers_Watermen_Crabs_and_the_Chesapeake_Bay 4.08 102 74010 4.10 109 24 8113 3.88 3744 393 1977 118154 080185556X 9780801855566 4 <![CDATA[The Tidewater Tales (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171747936m/118154.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171747936s/118154.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/118154.The_Tidewater_Tales 3.92 76 "Tell me a story..." Katherine Shorter Sherritt Sagamore, 8 1/2 months pregnant, is a blue-blooded library scientist and founding mother of the American Society for the Preservation of Storytelling. Her husband Peter, 8 1/2 months nervous, is a blue-collar storyteller with a penchant for brevity. Sailing in the Chesapeake Bay, they tell each other tales to break the writer's block handed Peter by his Muse, to ease the weight of Katherine's pregnancy, to entertain, and to enlighten. Along with their stories, we learn of the Bay itself--past and present. The beloved Chesapeake, where young Peter once indulged his Huck Finn fantasy, is in danger of becoming what he dubs a moral cesspool; where nature is in a losing struggle with man; where the hallowed Deniston School for Girls is being pressured by the CIA to sell land to the Soviet embassy; and where the old Sagamore homestead might or might not be the newest espionage station on the shoreline.

"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

"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."--William Pritchard, New York Times Book Review

]]> 8113 3.88 3744 393 1987 50414 1564780961 9781564780966 3 <![CDATA[Sabbatical: A Romance (American Literature Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170368988m/50414.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170368988s/50414.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50414.Sabbatical_A_Romance 3.44 62 8113 3.88 3744 393 1982 144633 0316083593 9780316083591 4 <![CDATA[On with the Story: Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172164592m/144633.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172164592s/144633.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144633.On_with_the_Story_Stories 3.46 52 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.]]> 8113 3.88 3744 393 1996 3609204 0547072481 9780547072487 18 <![CDATA[The Development]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3609204.The_Development 3.16 56
"I find myself inclined to set down for whomever, before my memory goes kaput altogether, some account of our little community, in particular of what Margie and I consider to have been its most interesting hour: the summer of the Peeping Tom."

Something has disturbed the comfortably retired denizens of a pristine Florida-style gated community in Chesapeake Bay country. In the dawn of the new millennium and the evening of their lives, these empty nesters discover that their tidy enclave can be as colorful, shocking, and surreal as any of John Barth's fictional locales. From the high jinks of a toga party to marital infidelities, a baffling suicide pact, and the sudden, apocalyptic destruction of the short-lived development, Barth brings mordant humor and compassion to the lives of characters we all know well.

From "one of the most prodigally gifted comic novelists writing in English
today" (Newsweek), The Development is John Barth at his most accessible
and sympathetic best.]]> 8113 3.88 3744 393 2008 118159 0801855578 9780801855573 2 <![CDATA[The Friday Book (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171747949m/118159.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171747949s/118159.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/118159.The_Friday_Book 3.73 33 The Friday Book was the first work of nonfiction by novelist John Barth, author of The Sot-Weed Factor, Giles Goat-Boy, and Chimera. Taking its title from the day of the week Barth would devote to nonfiction, the three dozen essays discuss a wide range of topics from the blue crabs of Barth's beloved Chesapeake Bay to weighty literary subjects such as Borges, Homer, and semiotics. Even when taking on serious matters, Barth's essays are shrewd, playful, and often very funny.]]> 8113 3.88 3744 393 1984 24842 1564780619 9781564780614 3 <![CDATA[Letters: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649303m/24842.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223649303s/24842.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24842.Letters_A_Novel 3.72 36 8113 3.88 3744 393 1979 24841 0618257306 9780618257300 3 <![CDATA[Coming Soon!!!: A Narrative]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167544375m/24841.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167544375s/24841.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24841.Coming_Soon_A_Narrative 3.42 31 8113 3.88 3744 393 2001 50411 0618562087 9780618562084 1 <![CDATA[The Book of Ten Nights and a Night: Eleven Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170368968m/50411.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170368968s/50411.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50411.The_Book_of_Ten_Nights_and_a_Night_Eleven_Stories 3.14 29 8113 3.88 3744 393 2004 144650 0316086916 9780316086912 1 <![CDATA[Further Fridays: Essays, Lectures, and Other Nonfiction, 1984 - 1994]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172164611m/144650.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172164611s/144650.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144650.Further_Fridays_Essays_Lectures_and_Other_Nonfiction_1984_1994 3.59 22 8113 3.88 3744 393 1995 24837 0618610162 9780618610167 5 <![CDATA[Where Three Roads Meet: Novellas]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167544374m/24837.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167544374s/24837.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24837.Where_Three_Roads_Meet_Novellas 3.05 22
The first novella, "Tell Me," explores a callow undergraduate's initiation into the mysteries of sex, death, and the Heroic Cycle. The second novella, "I've Been Told," traces no less than the history of storytelling and examines innocence and modernity, ignorance and self-consciousness. And the three elderly sisters of the third novella, "As I Was Saying . . . ," record an oral history of their youthful muse-like services to (and servicings of) a subsequently notorious and now mysteriously vanished novelist.

Sexy, humorous, and brimming with Barth's deep intelligence and playful irreverence, Where Three Roads Meet will surely delight loyal fans and draw new ones.

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.

"Teller, tale, torrid . . . inspiration: Barth's seventeenth book brings these three narrative 'roads' together inimitably, and thrice. [Where Three Roads Meet] employs all of his familiar devices -- alliteration, shifts in diction and time, puns -- to tease and titillate, while at the same time articulate -- obliquely, sadly, angrily, gloriously -- a farewell to language and its objects: us." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review</div>]]> 8113 3.88 3744 393 2005 309406 014024705X 9780140247053 1 <![CDATA[Stories of the Modern South: Revised Edition]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173618911m/309406.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173618911s/309406.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/309406.Stories_of_the_Modern_South_Revised_Edition 3.87 15
1928 story by James Agee
Wter-message by John Barth
The ugliest pilgrim by Doris Betts
Children on their birthdays by Truman Capote
Blue dive by Fred Chappell
Over the hill by Andre Dubus
Pantaloon in black by William Faulkner
The sky is gray by Ernest Gaines
Time of bitter children by George Garrett
Revenge by Ellen Gilchrist
The brilliant leaves by Caroline Gordon
The faces of blood kindred by William Goyen
Testimony of pilot by Barry Hannah
The fugitives by Madison Jones
The fifth generation by Hunter Kay
The singer by David Madden
The best teacher in Georgia by John McCuskey Jr.
The sojourner by Carson McCullers
Good country people by Flannery O'Connor
Trilobites by Breece D'J Pancake
1934 by Jayne Anne Phillips
Holiday by Katherine Anne Porter
The warrior princess Ozimba by Reynolds Price
Angel by Eve Shelnutt
The finder by Elizabeth Spencer
What you hear from 'em? by Peter Taylor
The geologist's maid by Anne Tyler
Strong horse tea by Alice Walker
Blackberry Winter by Robert Penn Warren
The wide net by Eudora Welty
The yellow bird by Tennessee Williams]]> 242518 3.92 40 3 7973 3.87 4415 505 3506 3.91 16243 1675 22694 4.29 17614 1567 431149 3.98 76861 4615 60697 3.99 522 89 59058 3.68 60 12 1425903 4.28 1905 174 29805 4.24 579 123 7751 3.79 29613 1049 34005 3.98 3288 253 237106 3.71 942 233 3535 3.86 57232 4345 74572 4.01 978 136 2920409 3.71 17 1 167132 3.48 61 7 8167 3.78 1006 139 123172 4.13 114 6 53490 4.07 1098 124 343325 4.29 31 2 2920410 3.87 15 1 61267 3.56 135 22 146365 3.61 31 5 34191 3.58 620 85 2920411 3.87 15 1 29611 4.06 2111 303 8113 3.88 3744 393 25812 3.62 45 7 457 3.59 34931 3233 16267 3.53 131 13 7380 4.05 38763 2376 3736 4.08 5409 571 2920412 3.87 15 1 1995 3557863 0340625678 9780340625675 0 <![CDATA[Once Upon a Time]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3557863.Once_Upon_a_Time 3.57 7 8113 3.88 3744 393 1994 144664 0935716165 9780935716160 0 <![CDATA[The Literature Of Exhaustion And The Literature Of Replenishment]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144664.The_Literature_Of_Exhaustion_And_The_Literature_Of_Replenishment 2.67 3 8113 3.88 3744 393 1982 144620 0838754015 9780838754016 0 <![CDATA[Transcending Space: Architectural Places in Works by Henry David Thoreau, E.E. Cummings, and John Barth]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144620.Transcending_Space_Architectural_Places_in_Works_by_Henry_David_Thoreau_E_E_Cummings_and_John_Barth 5.00 1 83606 5.00 1 0 8113 3.88 3744 393 10547 4.39 6975 534 2000 144643 0935716319 9780935716313 0 <![CDATA[Don't Count on It: A Note on the Number of the 1001 Nights]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144643.Don_t_Count_on_It_A_Note_on_the_Number_of_the_1001_Nights 3.00 1 8113 3.88 3744 393 1984 867503 0941964604 9780941964609 0 <![CDATA[Conjunctions: 44, An Anatomy Of Roads: The Quest Issue]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179034658m/867503.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179034658s/867503.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/867503.Conjunctions_44_An_Anatomy_Of_Roads_The_Quest_Issue 3.00 1 Conjunctions: 44, An Anatomy of Roads: The Quest Issue, explores in fiction and poetry the fascinating, complex process of defamiliarization as the ultimate path to knowing oneself. John Barth contributes an astonishing, hilarious novella entitled, "I've Been Told: A Story's Story," which may be the ultimate quest narrative in that the story of a quester is narrated by the quest itself. Young Bristish author and Booker Award finalist for his first novel, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, Jon McGregor offers a story of a distraught man who travels to an unnamed island in search of his lost father. David Schuman's story "Miss" is an eerie modern desert journey in which a man and his daughter, who is convinced that she is a cat, encounters the mother who abandoned him working in a Twilight Zone-like diner in the middle of nowhere. "Kronia," by celebrated fantasy writer Elizabeth Hand, details a love story that may or may not have actually happened over the course of decades around the world. Joanna Scott, Carole Maso, Rikki Ducornet, Nathaniel Mackey, Forrest Gander, and some 24 other writers contribute to this journey of the mind. Edited by Bradford Morrow. Paperback, 6 x 9 in./400 pgs]]> 8113 3.88 3744 393 40983 3.76 1907 296 422512 4.33 83 22 2005 144646 2020105802 9782020105804 0 <![CDATA[La croisière du Pokey]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172164607m/144646.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172164607s/144646.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144646.La_croisi_re_du_Pokey 0.0 0 8113 3.88 3744 393 1991 144648 8472450104 9788472450103 0 <![CDATA[Antologia de Teologos Contemporaneos]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144648.Antologia_de_Teologos_Contemporaneos 0.0 0 8113 3.88 3744 393 2005 1165816 3499250284 9783499250286 0 <![CDATA[Ambrose im Juxhaus]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1165816.Ambrose_im_Juxhaus 0.0 0 8113 3.88 3744 393 1979 1690987 0449900908 9780449900901 0 <![CDATA[Ft-Letters]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1690987.Ft_Letters 0.0 0 8113 3.88 3744 393 1982 144635 0937692174 9780937692172 0 <![CDATA[Browsing.]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144635.Browsing_ 0.0 0 8113 3.88 3744 393 2004 6436982 1438953518 9781438953519 0 <![CDATA[Northland: A City Within A Nation]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6436982-northland 0.0 0 8113 3.88 3744 393 2009 5902605 0822324237 9780822324232 0 <![CDATA[Mutual Impressions: Writers from the Americas Reading One Another]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255754874m/5902605.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255754874s/5902605.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5902605.Mutual_Impressions_Writers_from_the_Americas_Reading_One_Another 0.0 0 Mutual Impressions Ilan Stavans dispels these notions by showing how solid the bridges between writers and across borders have been, at least since the early days of this century, and how crucial they are likely to become as we enter the next millennium.
Divided into symmetrical halves—South reading North and North reading South—the book presents essays by leading novelists, poets, and other writers that focus on the work of another literary figure from across the divide. Borges, for example, finds in Hawthorne the perfect precursor to his own interest in allegories; Katherine Anne Porter examines José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi as a rascal whose picaresque views of life in The Itching Parrot served to launch the Latin American novel; Cortázar’s study of the plots and style of Poe shows an affinity that left an indelible mark on the Argentine’s short fiction; Susan Sontag views Machado de Assis as the ultimate mirror, a proto–postmodernist.
With other essays by Thomas Pynchon, William H. Gass, John Updike, Gabriel García Márquez, Alejo Carpentier, John Barth, Robert Coover, Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Grace Paley, Juan Carlos Onetti, and Mark Strand, among others, Mutual Impressions offers a remarkable view of the connections that comprise a literary tradition of the Americas. It is a book that will surprise and enliven its readers as it informs and awakens in them a sense of wonder.</P>

Contributors. John Barth, José Bianco, Robert Bly, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier, Hiber Conteris, Robert Coover, Julio Cortázar, Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, Waldo Frank, Carlos Fuentes, William H. Gass, Nicolás Guillén, William Kennedy, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel García Márquez, José Martí, Pablo Neruda, Victoria Ocampo, Juan Carlos Onetti, Grace Paley, Octavio Paz, Katherine Anne Porter, Thomas Pynchon, Kenneth Rexroth, Antonio Benítez Rojo, Barbara Probst Solomon, Susan Sontag, Ilan Stavans, Mark Strand, John Updike, Pedro Henríque Ureña, Derek Walcott, Paul West

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