{"product_id":"chimera-paperback-6","title":"Chimera - Paperback","description":"\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\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 22, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42157934739591,"sku":"9781628974454","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/5d47f574df967f40f89fb9fcd6c80850_5ee19428-81b7-4d82-ae2e-ef1b963d2d18.webp?v=1733254840","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/chimera-paperback-6","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}