The Development
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Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
01.11.2017
Verlag
Mariner BooksSeitenzahl
176 (Printausgabe)
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1017 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780547504704
"A merry satire about the smart, moneyed,and demanding retirees living in agated community... Scintillating on the surface and churning with danger below" (
Booklist).
From a National Book Award-winning author, this is a collection of "nine darkly comic stories set in a gated community on Maryland's Eastern Shore" (
Publishers Weekly).
Something has disturbed the comfortably aging denizens of Heron Bay Estates, a pristine retirement community in Chesapeake Bay. In the dawn of the new millennium-and the evening of their lives-these empty nesters have discovered that their tidy enclave can be surprisingly colorful, shocking, and surreal.
From the high jinks of a toga party to a baffling suicide pact, John Barth, "a comic genius of the highest order," brings compassion to the lives of his characters with the mordant humor that has earned him a reputation as one of our most original storytellers (
The New York Times Book Review).
"Disturbing, but humorous... Reading 'The Development' is a worthy investment in lofty literary real estate." -
The Seattle Times
"Perhaps the most prodigally gifted comic novelists writing in English today." -
Newsweek
"Alow-key, clear-eyed, battered-but-unbowed portrait of the diminishments and minor pleasures of age. Barth's prose still has its sinew and snap; he examines near-decrepitude with mordant, rueful wit." -
Kirkus Reviews
Booklist).
From a National Book Award-winning author, this is a collection of "nine darkly comic stories set in a gated community on Maryland's Eastern Shore" (
Publishers Weekly).
Something has disturbed the comfortably aging denizens of Heron Bay Estates, a pristine retirement community in Chesapeake Bay. In the dawn of the new millennium-and the evening of their lives-these empty nesters have discovered that their tidy enclave can be surprisingly colorful, shocking, and surreal.
From the high jinks of a toga party to a baffling suicide pact, John Barth, "a comic genius of the highest order," brings compassion to the lives of his characters with the mordant humor that has earned him a reputation as one of our most original storytellers (
The New York Times Book Review).
"Disturbing, but humorous... Reading 'The Development' is a worthy investment in lofty literary real estate." -
The Seattle Times
"Perhaps the most prodigally gifted comic novelists writing in English today." -
Newsweek
"Alow-key, clear-eyed, battered-but-unbowed portrait of the diminishments and minor pleasures of age. Barth's prose still has its sinew and snap; he examines near-decrepitude with mordant, rueful wit." -
Kirkus Reviews
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