Final Fridays

Final Fridays

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<div>For decades, acclaimed author John Barth has strayed from his Monday-through-Thursday-morning routine of fiction-writing and dedicated Friday mornings to the muse of nonfiction. The result is <I>Final Fridays</I>, his third essay collection, following <I>The Friday Book</I> (1984) and <I>Further Fridays</I> (1995). Sixteen years and six novels since his last volume of non-fiction, Barth delivers yet another remarkable work comprised of 27 insightful essays.<br><BR>With pieces covering everything from reading, writing, and the state of the art, to tributes to writer-friends and family members, this collection is witty and engaging throughout. Barth’s “unaffected love of learning” (<I>San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle</I>) and “joy in thinking that becomes contagious” (<I>Washington Post</I>), shine through in this third, and, with an implied question mark, final essay collection.<br></div>