{"product_id":"chimera-9781628974454","title":"Chimera","description":"A 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50645177172242,"sku":"9781628974454","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d494aac7-cf72-49a4-85d3-9a767b2a350f.jpg?v=1733141931","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/chimera-9781628974454","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}