Once Upon A Time A Floating Opera Barth John by Barth John 9780316082624, 0316082627 instant download after payment.

“A celebration of the power of narrative, of the questions it must ask and can answer ...” —New York Times
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“A celebration of the power of narrative, of the questions it must ask and can answer ... [It is] brilliantly conceived, elegantly written, bursting with life, profound in its understanding, bawdy and funny, and comic in the wisest and best sense of the word.” —New York Times
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.