What novel was written by an American writer best known for his postmodernist and metafictional fiction?
The Tidewater Tales The Tidewater Tales is a 1987 novel by the American writer John Barth. Its narrative is told from the shared perspectives of Peter Sagamore and Katherine Sherritt Sagamore, a well-coupled couple in their 8 and a half month of pregnancy in the summer of 1980. Peter Sagamore is a gifted author, whose gifts, we learn early on, have been dwindling in recent years due to a malignant relationship with "the demon Less is More". His fiction has fizzled from sprawling works to solitary words on a page, and his career has followed suit. His wife, Katherine, herself a storyteller by trade, sets him a task at his beckon: She asks him to take them sailing, and to tell her the tale of a couple much like them in manner and make and in their reckless decision to go sailing at such a delicate time in her pregnancy. The result is "The Tidewater Tales: a novel", or, the story of the stories these two storytellers swap whilst sailing in their ship, Story, atop the waters of the Chesapeake Bay.
Andrew Foster Altschul Andrew Foster Altschul is an American fiction writer. He is the author of the novels "Deus Ex Machina", which Michael Schaub, in his NPR review, called "brilliant... one of the best novels about American culture in years," and "Lady Lazarus", and his short fiction and essays have been published in "Esquire", "McSweeney's", "Ploughshares", "Fence", and "One Story". His short story "Embarazada" was selected for "Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014" and his short story "A New Kind of Gravity" was anthologized in both "Best New American Voices 2006" and the "O.Henry Prize Stories 2007".