Sabbatical

John Barth

first published 1982 Penguin Books, 1983 366 pages

Subtitled "a romance," Sabbatical is the story of Susan Rachel Allan Seckler, a sharp young associate professor of early American literature - part Jewish, part Gypsy, and possibly descended from Edgar Allen Poe - and her husband Fenwick Scott Key Turner, a 50-year-old ex-CIA officer currently between careers, a direct descendant of the author of "The Star Spangled Banner" and himself the author of a troublemaking bo...

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Sabbatical edition · 1996 · Dalkey Archive Press · 366 pages
Sabbatical edition · 1984 · Panther · 301 pages
Sabbatical edition · 1983 · Penguin Books · 366 pages
Sabbatical edition · 1982 · Secker & Warburg · 366 pages
Sabbatical edition · 1982 · Putnam Pub Group (T) · 9780399127236
Sabbatical edition · 1982 · Putnam · 366 pages

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