The Development
The Development is a book of interrelated short stories by American writer John Barth, published in 2008. The stories are set in the Heron Bay Estates gated community for the elderly in Maryland Tidewater.[1]
Stories
- "Peeping Tom"
- "Toga Party"
- "Teardown"
- "The Bard Award"
- "Progressive Dinner"
- "Us/Them"
- "Assisted Living"
- "The End"
- "Rebeginning"
gollark: What if you need to... quickly inspect your CPU die and don't need to use it afterward?
gollark: Emergency die ejection is a useful feature!
gollark: If you use 100% CPU the fans may actually cause it to lift off your lap while depleting the battery at 0.5% a second.
gollark: Also, some things actually need and can use overly large integers now even if they're not being used for memory addresses, which would be silly.
gollark: As far as I'm aware, quantum stuff can mostly just accelerate specific algorithms and will be relegated to expensive coprocessors like GPUs.
References
Works cited
- Birkerts, Sven (2008-10-05). "Lost in the Rest Home". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-02-14.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Further reading
- Miller, Gregory Leon (2008-11-21). "Fiction review: 'The Development' by John Barth". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
- Taghizadeh, Ali; Ghaderi, Ali. "Psychoanalytic Perspective of Trauma in John Barth's The Development: Nine Stories" (PDF). 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies. 21 (2): 131–140.
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