Harris, Charles

Passionate Virtuosity: The Fiction of John Barth

Hardcover, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1983. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. This book "provides the most complete assessment yet of John Barth's marvelous fictions and is the first book to deal effectively with Barth's exploration of the tensions between form and feeling, intellect and intuition, reality and myth." Ships same or next business day. Gift inscription on free endpaper. Bookplate of noted collector, Rolland Comstock, on paste-down endpaper. Book's spine is slightly skewed, light bumps on both ends of spine, minimal edge wear, light foxing on edges, faint drink stain on head edge of back free endpaper. Pages remain clean, tight, and bright. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. DJ has normal edge and shelf wear, small piece missing on head of spine, one-inch tear on tail of spine, 1/4-inch tear on tail of front cover, light creases on head and tail edges of back cover, tape on inside of spine at stress point. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 217 pages. [Item #550]

Price: $20.00