The Development

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

"Peeping Tom"
"Toga Party"
"Teardown"
"The Bard Award"
"Progressive Dinner"
"Us/Them"
"Assisted Living"
"The End"
"Rebeginning"

References

^ Birkerts 2008.

Works cited

Birkerts, Sven (2008-10-05). "Lost in the Rest Home". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-02-14.

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: Language, Linguistics, Literature. 21 (2): 131–140. doi:10.17576/3L-2015-2102-10.

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v t e John Barth
Fiction	The Floating Opera (1956) The End of the Road (1958) The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) Giles Goat-Boy (1966) Lost in the Funhouse (1968) Chimera (1972) LETTERS (1979) Sabbatical (1982) The Tidewater Tales (1987) The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor (1991) Once Upon a Time: A Floating Opera (1994) On with the Story (1996) Coming Soon!!! (2001) The Book of Ten Nights and a Night (2004) Where Three Roads Meet (2005) The Development (2008) Every Third Thought (2011)
Non-fiction	"The Literature of Exhaustion" (1967) The Friday Book (1984) Further Fridays (1995) Final Fridays (2012) Postscripts (or Just Desserts) (2022)
Other	End of the Road

Stories

References

Works cited

Further reading