The Development

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.[1]

## Stories

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1. "Peeping Tom"
2. "Toga Party"
3. "Teardown"
4. "The Bard Award"
5. "Progressive Dinner"
6. "Us/Them"
7. "Assisted Living"
8. "The End"
9. "Rebeginning"

## References

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1. ^ Birkerts 2008.

### Works cited

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* Birkerts, Sven (2008-10-05). "Lost in the Rest Home". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-02-14.

## Further reading

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* Miller, Gregory Leon (2008-11-21). "Fiction review: 'The Development' by John Barth". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
* Taghizadeh, Ali; Ghaderi, Ali (2015). "Psychoanalytic Perspective of Trauma in John Barth's The Development: Nine Stories" (PDF). 3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature. 21 (2): 131–140\. doi:10.17576/3L-2015-2102-10.

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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|

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