NY, Random House, (1972). His National Book Award winning novel, a series of three interconnected stories that are ultimately about storytelling itself. Inscribed by the author to critic Leslie Fiedler and his wife: "For Leslie and Sally, from an old accomplice. Jack." Barth and Fiedler were close friends and practically literary superstars at the time: Barth was one of the leading novelists of the postmodern movement that took root in the Sixties, and Fiedler's book Love and Death in the American Novel was one of the most important critical works of the time, deconstructing the notion of the "great American novel" and by doing so helping to redefine the national literature. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#028147] SOLD