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Once upon a time : a floating opera
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Once upon a time : a floating opera

Author: John Barth
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown, 1994.
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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An fantasy-filled sailing trip through Chesapeake Bay, in the course of which a writer recounts his life. The novel is written in the form of an opera whose arias serve as vehicles for digressions which would otherwise have slowed down the narrative. By the author of The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor.
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Genre/Form: Autobiographical fiction.
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Barth
ISBN: 0316082627 $23.95 9780316082624 $23.95 0316082589 9780316082587
OCLC Number: 28722529
Description: 398 p. ; 25 cm.
Responsibility: John Barth.

Abstract:

An fantasy-filled sailing trip through Chesapeake Bay, in the course of which a writer recounts his life. The novel is written in the form of an opera whose arias serve as vehicles for digressions which would otherwise have slowed down the narrative. By the author of The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor.

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