{"product_id":"chimera-paperback-3","title":"Chimera - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Barth\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA National Book Award winner, this bawdy, comic trio of novellas finds John Barth injecting his signature wit into three tales many times told: that of Scheherazade, storyteller of the \u003ci\u003eThousand and One Nights\u003c\/i\u003e; of Perseus, slayer of Medusa; and of Bellerophon, rider of Pegasus and slayer of the Chimera.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Barth is our most celebrated postmodernist. From the appearance in 1956 of \u003ci\u003eThe Floating Opera\u003c\/i\u003e, his first published book, through the essay collection \u003ci\u003eFinal Fridays\u003c\/i\u003e, released in 2012, he has published at least two books in each of the seven decades spanning his writerly life thus far. Thrice nominated for the National Book Award--\u003ci\u003eThe Floating Opera\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLost in the Funhouse\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eChimera\u003c\/i\u003e, which won in 1973--Barth has received the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction, the PEN\/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, and the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. A native of Maryland's Eastern Shore, he taught for twenty-two years in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He now lives in Florida with his wife Shelly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 22, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47252889174265,"sku":"9781628974454","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/cVRlK1c2blVnbFhCL2o3RDdWdVRydz09_22842a97-1e38-4a6a-bf1d-0923e7cb03a6.webp?v=1768693772","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/chimera-paperback-3","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}