''The Tidewater Tales'' is a 1987 novel by American writer
John Barth
John Simmons Barth (; born May 27, 1930) is an American writer who is best known for his postmodern and metafictional fiction. His most highly regarded and influential works were published in the 1960s, and include ''The Sot-Weed Factor'', a sa ...
. It tells the story of a married couple of storytellers, Peter Sagamore and Katherine Sherritt Sagamore, during the summer of 1980.
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Fiction set in 1980
1987 American novels
Novels about writers
Novels by John Barth
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