Letters
Letters is a book written by John Barth. The book was published in 1994 and is listed under the Fiction category. For readers who want to quickly understand what this title offers, this page gives a clear overview of the book, including its description, author information, page count, ratings, and ISBN details.
The full title of the book is Letters. When available, the subtitle is A Novel, which gives extra context about the theme, focus, or main idea behind the book. According to the available description, Basically, [Barth] takes several people from his early novels and has them all starting to write to each other, and to him, their letters and experiences directing the plot. And what starts out as what could be a too-cute literary trick winds up being extremely revealing, as the characters pour themselves into the letters, regardless of whom they’re writing to, as the plot skips and slips through time. On one level it acts as a sequel to those early novels, continuing their stories and although it’s not really required to read those books, I’m not going to pretend it doesn’t help. The best thing to do would be to read those old novels in one block and then move onto this … I read them some years ago so I was a little fuzzy on the finer points. But I picked it up. But Barth captures the voices of his old characters well and even if you didn’t know who was writing what letter, you could tell. And thus they tell the recepient, and us, about their hopes and fears, they mingle together, they lie, they come unglued, and by the end you sort of get a tapestry of their thoughts. There’s a plot weaving through here but sometimes it becomes hard to connect it with six different people discussing different angles of it with you, but I just went with it and enjoyed the writing for what it was. –Michael Battaglia at Amazon.com.
This book has 772 pages, making it useful for readers who want to know the approximate length before starting. It has an average rating of 3.82, based on 202 ratings, which can help readers understand how other people have responded to it.
For cataloging and reference purposes, the ISBN-13 is 9781564780614, while the ISBN-10 is 1564780619. These numbers are helpful when searching for the exact edition of the book online, in libraries, or in bookstores.
The book cover image can be viewed here: http://books.google.com/books/content?id=m0MZch4xxRIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api.
Overall, Letters by John Barth is a title that may interest readers looking for books in Fiction. Whether you are researching new books, comparing editions, or building a reading list, this page gives you the most important details in one place.
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