John Barth, Author . Houghton Mifflin $26 (416p) ISBN 978-0-618-13165-5
Rushdie. Barth. Allende. Miller.
Wideman. Sibley. These names and a handful of others seemed to be on everybody's lips at BEA 2001, because these are the authors of some of the hottest books to debut at the show, the books that everyone wanted...
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John Barth, Author . Houghton Mifflin $24 (295p) ISBN 978-0-618-40566-4
In Barth's latest collection, one of his stand-ins, C.P. Mason, a writer/teacher who is trying to fit a whole short story around a sentence he remembers from a dream, remarks: "Has any storyteller, from Homer to Hemingway, Poe to Pasternak,...
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John Barth, Author . Houghton Mifflin $23 (163p) ISBN 978-0-618-61016-7
Teller, tale, torrid (and torpid) inspiration: Barth's 17th book brings these three narrative "roads" together inimitably, and thrice. It employs all of his familiar devices—alliteration, shifts in diction and time, puns ("Leda
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John Barth, Author . Houghton Mifflin $23 (167p) ISBN 978-0-547-07248-7
From the iconic Barth come nine darkly comic stories set in a gated community on Maryland's Eastern Shore. In his trademark style—multiple endings, metaphysical musings, breaking the fourth wall—Barth presents a searing indictment...
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John Barth, Author Putnam Publishing Group $21.95 (655p) ISBN 978-0-399-13247-6
In Barth's work since The Sot-Weed Factor, fiction itselfstorytelling as a way of experiencing and rendering the worldclaims the center of attention. Even the sloop in which the principal characters of the current novel drift in the noxious waters...
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John Barth, Author Little Brown and Company $22.95 (573p) ISBN 978-0-316-08251-8
Just when you may have concluded, like Queen Scheherazade's husband, that you've ``heard them all,'' Barth ( The Tidewater Tales ) proves again how original and entertaining he is. Like many of the author's previous works, his latest blends fantasy,
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John Barth, Author Little Brown and Company $23.95 (398p) ISBN 978-0-316-08262-4
The author's latest ``excursion through time's funhouse'' is an enjoyable rumination which takes the form of a three-act opera, complete with two entr'actes and numerous ``arias'' and recitatives. It even opens with a ``Program Note,'' which...
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John Barth, Author Little Brown and Company $27.95 (377p) ISBN 978-0-316-08324-9
Novelist Barth has often been called a postmodernist, and in these witty essays, many of which have appeared in various periodicals, he explores the hallmarks of the style--formal playfulness, narrative self-consciousness, self-reflexiveness, ironic
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John Barth, Author Back Bay Books $13.45 (408p) ISBN 978-0-316-08258-7
This latest novel finds the author and his wife lost at sea during a cruise on Chesapeake Bay, where Barth meets up with his fictional twin sister and a friend who take him through a journey of his past novels. (Aug.)
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John Barth, Author Little Brown and Company $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-316-08263-1
In novels like the National Book Award-winning Chimera, Barth has displayed an ingenious fusion of postmodern, metafictional narrative style and seductive tales. The deconstructive bent is still firmly intact in this collection of 11 short stories....
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John Barth, Author Back Bay Books $14.95 (392p) ISBN 978-0-316-08691-2
Novelist Barth, who on Fridays retreats from his fiction to indulge in essays, here presents a second miscellany of his nonfiction. (July)
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John Barth. Counterpoint, $24 (208p) ISBN 978-1-58243-755-2
Though fans will enjoy Barth's latest, which tackles the subject of old-age and dying, newcomers may find the novel gimmicky. George Irving (G.) Newett, a 77-year-old Maryland native, begins this fictional memoir by explaining a series of unlikely...
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John Barth. Counterpoint (PGW, dist.), $25 (256p) ISBN 978-1-58243-756-9
In what the octogenarian Barth (Lost in the Funhouse) warns may be his last collection of nonfiction (and perhaps even his last book), the seminal postmodern novelist engages issues as diverse as colonial American history, Christian exegesis, and...
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John Barth, Author, Barth John, Author Dalkey Archive Press $14.95 (772p) ISBN 978-1-56478-061-4
Barth's chimerical epistolary 1979 novel includes a new foreword by the author. (Nov.)
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John Barth. Dalkey Archive (Columbia Univ., dist.), $32.95 (800p) ISBN 978-1-62897-095-1
The work of John Barth, whose novels defined the postmodern ’60s even as they gestured in the direction of Scheherazade and Boccaccio, is in dire need of reassessment, which makes a Collected Stories welcome. Four Barth collections are assembled by...
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