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Once Upon a Time — a Floating Opera Countries to the story of aA celebration of the power of narrative, of the questions it must ask and can answer New York Times A celebration of the power of narrative, of the questions it must ask and can answer [It is] brilliantly conceived, elegantly written, bursting with life, profound in its understanding, bawdy and funny, and comic in the wisest and best sense of the word. New York Times John Barth, a moderately successful novelist just turned sixty, decides to take a