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Barth's metafictional novel is about two writers who are writing the book we are reading. A married couple, Fenn Turner (ex-CIA) and Susan Seckler (an English professor), embark in their 33-foot sailboat on an idyllic one-year cruise to Yucatan and the West Indies, and the novel consists of a record of their journey and of their differing agendas: she wants to get pregnant, he's still undecided about what to do with his post-CIA life.


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"The background question is whether the world will end before the novel does."

Sabbatical

by Barth, John

Price: $5.00


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Book desription: Putnam Hard Cover. Fair/Acceptable.

  • Bookseller: Book Castle US (US)
  • Bookseller Inventory #: 6232
  • Format/binding: Hardcover
  • Book condition: Fair
  • Jacket condition: Acceptable
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • ISBN 10: 0399127178
  • ISBN 13: 9780399127175
  • Publisher: Putnam
  • Date published: 1984
  • Pages: 366
  • Keywords: GENERAL FICTION

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