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Sabbatical 1982

By John Barth

  • Fiction, Marriage, Sailing, Married people, fiction

Subtitled "a romance," Sabbatical is the story of Susan Rachel Allan Seckler, a sharp young associate professor of early American literature - part Jewish, part Gypsy, and possibly descended from Edgar Allen Poe - and her husband Fenwick Scott Key Turner, a 50-year-old ex-CIA officer currently between careers, a direct descendant of the author of "The Star Spangled Banner" and himself the author of a troublemaking book about his former employer.

FictionMarriageSailingMarried people, fictionMaryland, fictionVirginia, fictionAmerican fiction (fictional works by one author)Fiction, action & adventureMarried peopleDomestic fiction

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