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Overview
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9781628971279
- ISBN-10: 1628971274
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Publish Date: December 2015
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
- Page Count: 408
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