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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • John Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction exploring themes of purpose and the meaning of existence.
"[Barth] ran riot over literary rules and conventions, even as he displayed, with meticulous discipline, mastery of and respect for…
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Easily one of the best short-story collections I have ever read. Maybe even the best.
This doesn't mean that all the stories in the book are equally entertaining, but it does mean that the best stories are so good they impart a terrific momentum to the collection as a whole, carrying it forward beyond all negative criticism, at least in my view.
I bought the edition I own, a pleasingly designed paperback published by Anchor Books, in the early 1990s. Barth is a writer I regard as almost impossibly talented, and yet considerable effort is required from the reader to…
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