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{{italic title}}{{In-universe|date=November 2011}}The Tidewater Tales is a 1987 novel by the American writer John Barth. Its narrative is told from the shared perspectives of Peter Sagamore and Katherine Sherritt Sagamore, a well-coupled couple in their 8 and a half month of pregnancy in the summer of 1980. Peter Sagamore is a gifted author, whose gifts, we learn early on, have been dwindling in recent years due to a malignant relationship with "the demon Less is More". His fiction has fizzled from sprawling works to solitary words on a page, and his career has followed suit. His wife, Katherine, herself a storyteller by trade, sets him a task at his beckon: She asks him to take them sailing, and to tell her the tale of a couple much like them in manner and make and in their reckless decision to go sailing at such a delicate time in her pregnancy. The result is "The Tidewater Tales: a novel", or, the story of the stories these two storytellers swap while sailing in their ship, Story, atop the waters of the Chesapeake Bay.[1]References1. ^{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE6DB173BF93BA15755C0A961948260&n=Top/Features/Books/Book%20Reviews|title=BETWEEN BLAM AND BLOOEY |work=The New York Times|accessdate=2008-10-22|last=|first=| first1=William| last1=Pritchard| first2=Is| last2=Writing| date=1987-06-28}}
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