The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor

by John Barth

Overview

A National Book Award winner offers his most inventive novel to date. Journalist Simon Behler finds himself in the house of Sinbad the Sailor after being washed ashore during a sea-going adventure. Over the course of six evenings, the two take turns recounting their voyages in a brilliantly entertaining weave of stories within stories. "Filled with white nights and golden days . . . lyrical, fresh and sprightly."—Washington Post.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781564788511
Publisher:	Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date:	06/22/2016
Series:	American Literature Series
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	573
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.80(d)

About the Author

John Barth was born in Cambridge, Maryland in 1930. He stands alongside Thomas Pynchon as one of the innovative giants of post-war fiction. He is the author of The Sot-Weed Factor, The Tidewater Tales, Lost in the Funhouse, The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor and the National Book Award winner Chimera. He taught for many years on the writing programme at John Hopkins University