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.

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

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: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies. 21 (2): 131–140. doi:10.17576/3L-2015-2102-10.