The Development
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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.{{sfn|Birkerts|2008}}
Stories
- "Peeping Tom"
- "Toga Party"
- "Teardown"
- "The Bard Award"
- "Progressive Dinner"
- "Us/Them"
- "Assisted Living"
- "The End"
- "Rebeginning"
References
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=Works cited=
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- {{cite web
|last = Birkerts
|first = Sven
|title = Lost in the Rest Home
|date = 2008-10-05
|website = The New York Times
|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/books/review/Birkerts-t.html?_r=0
|access-date = 2016-02-14
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Further reading
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- {{cite web
|last = Miller
|first = Gregory Leon
|title = Fiction review: 'The Development' by John Barth
|date = 2008-11-21
|website = San Francisco Chronicle
|url = http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Fiction-review-The-Development-by-John-Barth-3261004.php
|access-date = 2016-02-14}}
- {{cite journal
|last1 = Taghizadeh
|first1 = Ali
|last2 = Ghaderi
|first2 = Ali
|title = Psychoanalytic Perspective of Trauma in John Barth's The Development: Nine Stories
|journal = 3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature
|year = 2015
|volume = 21
|issue = 2
|pages = 131–140
|doi = 10.17576/3L-2015-2102-10
|url = http://ejournals.ukm.my/3l/article/download/8740/3356
|format = PDF|doi-access= free
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Category:2008 short story collections
Category:Novels set in Maryland
Category:Houghton Mifflin books
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