Surprise Castle
The Development

The Development - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:John BarthPublish date:2010-10-18Pages:176
Language:EnglishPublisher:Houghton MifflinISBN-13:9780547394503ISBN-10:547394500UPC:9780547394503Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, HumorousBook Topic:Black HumorSize:7.98 x 5.82 x 0.45 inchesWeight:0.3704Product ID:SCY9WWYQS3

From one of our most celebrated masters, a touching, comic, deeply humane collection of linked stories about surprising developments in a gated community

"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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Houghton MifflinISBN-13:9780547394503ISBN-10:547394500UPC:9780547394503Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, HumorousBook Topic:Black HumorSize:7.98 x 5.82 x 0.45 inchesWeight:0.3704Product ID:SCY9WWYQS3
Barth, John: - JOHN BARTH's fiction has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Malamud Award, and the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. For many years he taught in the writing seminars at John Hopkins University. He is the author of such seminal works as The Sot-Weed Factor, Chimera (for which he won the NBA), and Giles Goat-Boy.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

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John Barth

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