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Coming Soon!!!
by Barth, John
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/Very Good- Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0618131655
- ISBN 13
- 9780618131655
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001-11-20. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-/Very Good- Dust Jacket. 1st printing of 1st edition, from a private collection (NOT x-lib). Binding is tight and sturdy. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper, otherwise text very good. Top edge has light soil, bottom edge minor shelfwear. Unclipped DJ has faint sunning to spine. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges may apply for international shipping.
Synopsis
In a novelistic romp that is by turns hilarious and brilliant, John Barth, the dean of postmodern fiction, spoofs his own place in the pantheon of contemporary fiction and the generation of writers who have followed in the wake of his literary trailblazing. Barth's first novel in ten years, COMING SOON!!! is the tale of two writers: an older, retiring novelist setting out to write his last work and a young, aspiring writer of hypertext intent on toppling his master. Inspired by a gently sinking showboat replica called The Original Floating Opera II, grounded on a shoal somewhere in Chesapeake Bay as a hurricane (and Y2K) approaches, they race each other to write a novel about a floating opera -- a reprise of the fictional mentor's first novel, of Barth's own first novel, of Edna Ferber's literary monument Show Boat and its spawn of musicals and films. In the heat of their rivalry, the writers navigate, and sometimes stumble over, the cultural fault lines between print and electronic fiction, mentor and mentee, postmodernism and modernism. At a time of intense renewed interest in postmodernism, COMING SOON!!! spotlights its legacy with the wit and irreverence that mark Barth as one of our most highly regarded writers. It is an extraordinary addition to, and a playful riff on, Barth's oeuvre, a series of books that have shaped contemporary literature.
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- Bookseller
- The Book House in Dinkytown
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 260176
- Title
- Coming Soon!!!
- Author
- Barth, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good- Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0618131655
- ISBN 13
- 9780618131655
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2001-11-20
- X weight
- 25 oz
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