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
[edit]- "Peeping Tom"
- "Toga Party"
- "Teardown"
- "The Bard Award"
- "Progressive Dinner"
- "Us/Them"
- "Assisted Living"
- "The End"
- "Rebeginning"
References
[edit]Works cited
[edit]- Birkerts, Sven (2008-10-05). "Lost in the Rest Home". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
Further reading
[edit]- Miller, Gregory Leon (2008-11-21). "Fiction review: 'The Development' by John Barth". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
- Taghizadeh, Ali; Ghaderi, Ali (2015). "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. doi:10.17576/3L-2015-2102-10.