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"In 'On with the Story' the tales are told in bed, Scheherazade-style, by a vacationing retirement-age couple at a resort....[S]ince many of their tales concern retirement-age couples who are on vacation or traveling, Mr. Barth doesn't lack for opportunities to explore the routes by which his characters commute between their lives and the stories of their lives. He sees their quantum leaps between 'reality' and 'fiction' and their indeterminable status (teller? character? listener?) as parallel to subatomic phenomena--sometimes both particle and wave."Wanner, Susan is the author of 'On With the Story Adolescents Learning Through Narrative' with ISBN 9780867093377 and ISBN 0867093374.
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