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Barth, John

 
9780547394503: The Development
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ISBN 10: 0547394500 ISBN 13: 9780547394503
Editorial: Mariner Books, 2010

Sinopsis

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.

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Acerca del autor

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.

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Editorial
Mariner Books
Año de publicación
2010
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0547394500
ISBN 13 
9780547394503
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
176
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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Friedensallee 273
Hamburg
22763
Alemania

Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780547072487: The Development: Nine Stories

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0547072481 ISBN 13:  9780547072487
Editorial: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008
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