Development - Couverture rigide

Barth, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0547072481 ISBN 13 : 9780547072487

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

Praise for The Development "[Barth] is a master at exposing the foibles of his fellow man. Geriatric lust. Academic pretension. Social climbing. It's all here and worth a peek inside."--USA Today "Disturbing, but humorous. . . . There's a tinge of congenial dark whimsy to the collection. . . . Reading The Development is a worthy investment in lofty literary real estate."--Seattle Times "These pitch-perfect renderings of an affluent, geriatric America are the work of a 78-year-old author still at the peak of his artistic power."--Tennessean "[Barth is] still up to his old postmodern, metafictional tricks, and his prose is as buoyant as ever."--Richmond Times Dispatch "These linked stories, set in the planned community of Heron Bay Estates, are by turns satirical and compassionate, political and personal, world-weary and even life-weary."--Boston Globe

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0547072481
• ISBN 13: 9780547072487
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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