Tell me a story! Katherine Shorter Sherritt Sagamore orders her husband Peter Sagamore—and so lets loose a flood of tales that floats them both past encounteres with their own lives and loves, entanglements with the CIA and toxic waste, and fantastically inventive brushes with some of the greatest characters of all time, including updated versions of Don Quixote, Odysseus, and Scheherazade.
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Tell me a story! Katherine Shorter Sherritt Sagamore orders her husband Peter Sagamore—and so lets loose a flood of tales that floats them both past encounteres with their own lives and loves, entanglements with the CIA and toxic waste, and fantastically inventive brushes with some of the greatest characters of all time, including updated versions of Don Quixote, Odysseus, and Scheherazade.
“Whether discussing modernism, postmodernism, semiotics, Homer, Cervantes, Borges, blue crabs or osprey nests, Barth demonstrates an enthusiasm for the life of the mind, a joy in thinking (and in expressing those thoughts) that becomes contagious.”
— Washington Post
“Barth is a comic genius of the highest order.”
— Robert Scholes, The New York Times Book Review
John Barth is among our most celebrated storytellers. From the appearance in 1956 of The Floating Opera, his first pub- lished book, through the essay collection Final Fridays, released in 2012, he has pub- lished at least two books in each of the seven decades spanning his writerly life thus far. Thrice nominated for the Nation- al Book Award — The Floating Opera, Lost in the Funhouse, and Chimera, 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 Founda- tion 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.