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Description
The Book of Ten Nights and a Night offers both a keen introduction to the genius of John Barth and a deeply human argument for the enduring value of literature. Gathering stories written throughout this postmodern master's long career, the collection spans his entire range of styles, from... read more
First Sentence
There was meant to have been a book called Ten Nights and a Night, which, had it gotten itself written before TEOTWAW(A)KI 9/11/2001 - The End Of The World As We (Americans) Knew It-might have opened with a sportive extended invocation to the Storyteller's Muse, more or less like this: Tell, O Muse of Story, the hundred-percent-made-up tale of a modern-day Odysseus's interlude with the brackish tidewater marsh-nymph here called WYSIWYG- "Wissywig?"
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Authors & Contributors
- John Barth (Author)
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