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: How bizarrely volatile.
gollark: You can always just negotiate for/steal someone else's.
gollark: As a former child, children are annoying and I do not want any.
gollark: Well, technically everyone makes a difference but that difference might be rapidly overshadowed by random noise due to not doing much.
gollark: I dislike death lots and I'd like to live much longer than my ridiculous """natural lifespan""".
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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