Chimera (Barth novel)
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Chimera is a 1972 fantasy novel written by American writer John Barth, composed of three loosely connected novellas. The novellas are Dunyazadiad, Perseid and Bellerophoniad, whose titles refer eponym
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John Edward Williams
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John Edward Williams was an American author, editor and professor. He was best known for his novels Butcher's Crossing, Stoner, and Augustus, which won a U.S. National Book Award.
Chimera (Barth novel)
…its incorporation of stylistic elements that go beyond the traditional novel genre. It shared the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction with Augustus by John Edward Williams. The Dunyazadiad is a retelling of the framing story of Scheherazade, the famed storyteller of the One Thousand and One Nights. The story is told from…
John Edward Williams