John Napper Sailing Through the Universe (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Gardner
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The late 1960's and early 1970's
- Setting: London, Paris, and the United States
- Principal Characters: John Napper, The narrator, Joan, Lucy
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Art or artists, Future, Visions, epiphanies, or revelations
- Locales: United States, Paris, France, London, England
The Story
The narrator, a writer who teaches in a rural American university, is driven home from a party one night by his wife, Joan. Feeling old and perceiving death all around him, and goaded by his wife's nostalgia for John Napper, a successful painter they once knew, the narrator tells the story of his and his family's experience of the painter John Napper.
The narrator became acquainted with Napper when the latter served for a time as artist-in-residence at the narrator's university. John Napper had a commanding physical presence despite his old age: bohemian, big,...
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