John Barth, a moderately successful novelist just turned sixty, decides to take a sail on Chesapeake Bay with his wife, but a tropical storm forces them deep into the Maryland tidal marshes. Lost, Barth takes out his dinghy to search for a way home, but becomes embarked instead on a quest through the murkier regions of his own memory-a semi-memoir, staged as an operatic cruise through desire, vocation, despair, love, marriage, selves, and counterselves.
| ISBN: | 9781628971279 |
| Publication date: | 5th January 2016 |
| Author: | John Barth |
| Publisher: | Dalkey Archive Press an imprint of Deep Vellum Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 408 pages |
| Series: | American Literature |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
John Barth, a moderately successful novelist just turned sixty, decides to take a sail on Chesapeake Bay with his wife, but a tropical storm forces them deep into the Maryland tidal marshes. Lost, Barth takes out his dinghy to search for a way home, but becomes embarked instead on a quest through the murkier regions of his own memory-a semi-memoir, staged as an operatic cruise through desire, vocation, despair, love, marriage, selves, and counterselves.
Once Upon a Time - A Floating Opera features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction
Once Upon a Time - A Floating Opera is available in Paperback
Once Upon a Time - A Floating Opera was written by John Barth and published by Dalkey Archive Press an imprint of Deep Vellum Publishing
Once Upon a Time - A Floating Opera has 408 pages
Yes it is part of American Literature series
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