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Once upon a Time: A Floating Opera
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John Barth
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Little Brown & Co
Publication date
May 1, 1994
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780316082624
ISBN-10
0316082627
Dimensions
1.25 by 6.50 by 9.50 in.
Weight
1.40 lbs.
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Out of Print
Original list price
$23.95
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A master novelist, with characteristic verve and playful flourishes, presents his life, staged as a sort of operatic cruise through memory, desire, vocation, and that life's adventures, despairs, loves, marriages, selves, and counterselves. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo. Tour.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: A master novelist, with characteristic verve and playful flourishes, presents his life, staged as a sort of operatic cruise through memory, desire, vocation, and that life's adventures, despairs, loves, marriages, selves, and counterselves. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo. Tour.
Editions
Hardcover
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from Little Brown & Co (May 1, 1994)
9780316082624 | details & prices | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.40 lbs | List price $23.95
About: The novelist presents a fictionalized account of his life, staged as an operatic cruise through memory, desire, vocation, and that life's adventures, despairs, loves, marriages, selves, and counterselves
About: The novelist presents a fictionalized account of his life, staged as an operatic cruise through memory, desire, vocation, and that life's adventures, despairs, loves, marriages, selves, and counterselves
Paperback
from Dalkey Archive Pr (December 18, 2015)
9781628971279 | details & prices | 398 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.14 lbs | List price $19.00
About: John Barth, a moderately successful novelist just turned sixty, decides to take a sail on Chesapeake Bay with his wife, but a tropical storm forces them deep into the Maryland tidal marshes.
About: John Barth, a moderately successful novelist just turned sixty, decides to take a sail on Chesapeake Bay with his wife, but a tropical storm forces them deep into the Maryland tidal marshes.
Reprint edition from Little Brown & Co (August 1, 1995)
9780316082587 | details & prices | 5.75 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $13.95
About: The novelist presents a fictionalized account of his life, staged as an operatic cruise through memory, desire, vocation, and that life's adventures, despairs, loves, marriages, selves, and counterselves
About: The novelist presents a fictionalized account of his life, staged as an operatic cruise through memory, desire, vocation, and that life's adventures, despairs, loves, marriages, selves, and counterselves
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