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

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

1. Birkerts 2008.

Works cited

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

Further reading

• 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 .