573 pages
English language
Published 1991 by Little, Brown.
The last voyage of Somebody the Sailor
by John Barth
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Journalist Simon Behler finds himself in the house of Sinbad the Sailor after being washed ashore during a sea-going adventure. Over the course of six evenings, the two take turns recounting their voyages in a brilliantly entertaining weave of stories within stories.
Subjects
- Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Fiction.
- Americans -- Iraq -- Fiction.
- Storytelling -- Fiction.
- Journalists -- Fiction.
- Sailors -- Fiction.
- Baghdad (Iraq) -- Fiction.
- Maryland -- Fiction.