Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival. She married a man she grew to hate—and gave birth to a child she could never love. A child so monstrous that she killed it with her own hands…Twenty-five years later, Ellen Harper has a new life, a new husband, and two normal childr
Lost in the Funhouse
✍ Scribed by Barth, John
- Publisher
- Anchor Books;Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 158 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0804152500
- ASIN
- B00KPBDCIG
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✦ Synopsis
Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction. Though many of the stories gathered here were published separately, there are several themes common to them all, giving them new meaning in the context of this collection.
✦ Subjects
United States
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