cover image Once Upon a Time: A Floating Opera

Once Upon a Time: A Floating Opera

John Barth. Back Bay Books, $13.45 (408pp) ISBN 978-0-316-08258-7

This latest novel finds the author and his wife lost at sea during a cruise on Chesapeake Bay, where Barth meets up with his fictional twin sister and a friend who take him through a journey of his past novels. (Aug.)