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Lost in the Funhouse Paperback - 1988

by John Barth

Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction. Though many of the stories gathered here were published separately, there are several themes common to them all, giving them new meaning.


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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - John Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction exploring themes of purpose and the meaning of existence.

"[Barth] ran riot over literary rules and conventions, even as he displayed, with meticulous discipline, mastery of and respect for them." --The New York Times

From its opening story, "Frame-Tale"--printed sideways and designed to be cut out by the reader and twisted into a never-ending Mobius strip--to the much-anthologized "Life-Story," whose details are left to the reader to "fill in the blank," Barth's acclaimed collection challenges our ideas of what fiction can do. Highlights include the Homerian story-wthin-a-story-within-a-story (times seven) of "Menalaiad, ' and "Night-Sea Journey," a first-person account of a confused human sperm on its way to fertilize an egg. All of the characters in Lost in the Funhouse are searching, in one way or another, for their purpose and the meaning of their existence. Together, their stories form a kaleidescope of exuberant metafictional inventiveness.

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Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction. Though many of the stories gathered here were published separately, there are several themes common to them all, giving them new meaning in the context of this collection.

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  • Title Lost in the Funhouse
  • Author John Barth
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Anchor Books, New York
  • Date 1988-03-01
  • ISBN 9780385240871 / 0385240872
  • Weight 0.41 lbs (0.19 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.53 x 5.15 x 0.5 in (21.67 x 13.08 x 1.27 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Short stories, Experimental fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 87026214
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

John Barth (1930-2024) was an American writer celebrated for his postmodern and metafictional fiction. Barth's first novel, The Floating Opera, was published in 1956, followed by The End of the Road. Barth achieved critical and commercial success in the 1960s with The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles Goat-Boy. His collection of interconnected stories, Lost in the Funhouse, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1969. His other works include Chimera, a collection of three novellas that won the National Book Award in 1973; Letters, an epistolary novel; Sabbatical: A Romance; and The Friday Book, a collection of essays.
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