SabbaticalJohn Barth

Sabbatical

366 pagesFirst published 19826 editions
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Subtitled "a romance," Sabbatical is the story of Susan Rachel Allan Seckler, a sharp young associate professor of early American literature - part Jewish, part Gypsy, and possibly descended from Edgar Allen Poe - and her husband Fenwick Scott Key Turner, a 50-year-old ex-CIA officer currently between careers, a direct descendant of the author of "The Star Spangled Banner" and himself the author of a troublemaking book about his former employer. Seven years into their marriage, they decide to take a sabbatical, a sailboat journey on which they sum up their years together and try to make…

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Editions

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
EditionDalkey Archive Press19963669781564780966
EditionPanther19843019780586058220
EditionPenguin Books19833669780140066197
EditionSecker & Warburg19823669780436036750
EditionPutnam19823669780399127175
EditionPutnam Pub Group (T)1982—9780399127236
FictionMarriageSailingMarried people, fictionMaryland, fictionVirginia, fictionFiction, action & adventureMarried people