- Mythology, Fiction, Fiction in English, National Book Award Winner
Barth retells the tales of Scheherezade of the Thousand and One Nights, Perseus, and Bellerophon from varying perspectives, examining the myths' relationship to reality and their resonance with the contemporary world.
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Prestige, contemplative, grave and cool.
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- John Barth
- First published
- 1972
- Pages
- 308
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Distribution Ser, Ballantine, Quartet Books
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780233965512
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“At this point I interrupted my sister as usual to say, You have a way with words, Scheherazade.”
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