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π C.B. Blankenship
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Chimera
β Scribed by John Barth
- Publisher
- Fawcett
- Year
- 1972
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 378 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
{ Oct 2020 - epub revisions. Verified ebook for complete book description, cover, table of contents, content separation, and epub format error checking. }
Paperback, 320 pages
Published 1972
Fawcett Crest Book
National Book Award for Fiction (1973)
In CHIMERA, master novelist John Barth injects his signature wit to retell the myths of three great heroes and heroines of legend figures.
Dunyazade, Scheherazade's kid sister of The Thousand and One Nights, holds the destiny of herself and the prince who keeps her captive.
Perseus, the demigod who slew the Gorgon medusa, finds himself at forty battling for simple self-respect like any common mortal.
Bellerophon. once a hero for taming the winged horse Pegasus, must wrestle with a contentment that only makes him wretched.
Like the chimera of myth, which had a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail, all three are joined into a single, dazzling whole by the inexhaustible imagination of John Barth.
In a book that the Washington Post called βstylishly maned, tragically songful, and serpentinely elegant,β Barth retells these tales from varying perspectives, examining the mythsβ relationship to reality and their resonance with the contemporary world. A winner of the National Book Award, this feisty, witty, sometimes bawdy book provoked Playboy to comment, βThereβs every chance in the world that John Barth is a genius.β
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