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NOVELIST BARTH COMES FULL CIRCLE
2001
Overview
The two writers set up a friendly rivalry, both to write the same narrative, the telling or re-telling of the story of \"The Adams Original Floating Theater,\" which was the basis not only for Edna Ferber's novel Show Boat (published in 1926 and the basis of the Kern- Hammerstein musical the next year) but also for Barth's first novel, 45 years ago, The Floating Opera. Young Johns works on The Floating Opera II, a showboat named for Barth's first novel, as an actor and writer, and he goads his older guru into the contest of pen vs. word processor. Throughout the book are pictograph computer click boxes, as if the text you had in hand were interactive, with prompts like [Get to Story], [Hell with Story], or [Whatever].
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Gannett Media Corp
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