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050 00 $aPS3552.A75$bO5 1996
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100 1 $aBarth, John.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002021074
245 10 $aOn with the story :$bstories /$cJohn Barth.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aBoston :$bLittle, Brown,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $avii, 257 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 0 $aThe end: An introduction -- Ad infinitum: A short story -- And then one day... -- Preparing for the storm -- On with the story -- Love explained -- "Waves," by Amien Richard -- Stories of our lives -- Closing ut the visit -- Good-bye to the fruits -- Ever after -- Countdown: Once upon a time.
520 $aUsing the venerable literary device of the bedtime story, which links fictions as different as The Arabian Nights and Charlotte's Web, John Barth ingeniously interweaves stories from an ongoing, high-spirited but deadly serious nocturnal game of tale-telling by a more or less desperate loving couple vacationing at their "last resort.".
520 8 $aAs Scheherazade spun out her bedtime stories to save her life, the narrator of On with the Story spins out his to postpone The End, and to explore en route - wittily, mournfully, tenderly - love in modern life and postmodern literature. As the narrative cycles through the lifescapes of his subjects' stories, Barth affords a view both panoramic and microscopic of our own landscape.
520 8 $aWith eye and pen both sharp and beautiful he depicts love ranging from the obsessively puppy through the sophisticatedly fatigued, the delusionally murderous, even the quantum-physical, to the superbly fulfilled.
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs$y20th century$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100002
650 0 $aMarried people$zUnited States$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010100806
852 00 $bglx$hPS3552.A75$iO5 1996
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