First edition (publ. Houghton Mifflin)
The Development is a book of interrelated short stories by American writer John Barth, published in 2008. The stories are set in the Heron Bay Estates gated community for the elderly in Maryland Tidewater.
Stories [ edit ]
"Peeping Tom"
"Toga Party"
"Teardown"
"The Bard Award"
"Progressive Dinner"
"Us/Them"
"Assisted Living"
"The End"
"Rebeginning"
References [ edit ]
Works cited [ edit ]
Further reading [ edit ]
John Barth
Fiction
The Floating Opera (1956)
The End of the Road (1958)
The Sot-Weed Factor (1960)
Giles Goat-Boy (1966)
Lost in the Funhouse (1968)
Chimera (1972)
LETTERS (1979)
Sabbatical (1982)
The Tidewater Tales (1987)
The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor (1991)
Once Upon a Time: A Floating Opera (1994)
On with the Story (1996)
Coming Soon!!! (2001)
The Book of Ten Nights and a Night (2004)
Where Three Roads Meet (2005)
The Development (2008)
Every Third Thought (2011)
Non-fiction
"The Literature of Exhaustion" (1967)
The Friday Book (1984)
Further Fridays (1995)
Final Fridays (2012)
Postscripts (or Just Desserts) (2022)
Other End of the Road