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Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth
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Aug 18, 1987 | ISBN 9780385240864

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Giles Goat-Boy is a bonkers Cold War allegory that draws from the Bible, Oedipus Rex, Don Quixote, and Ulysses, among other works.” —The New York Times

“[Barth’s novels are] distinguished by a wide range of erudition, invention, wit, historical references, whimsy, bawdiness, and a great richness of image and style.” —The Paris Review

“By merrily using fiction to dissect itself, [Barth] was at the vanguard of a movement that defined a postwar American style. . . . Barth’s influence is unmistakable in David Foster Wallace’s work, as it is in that of so many others, including Zadie Smith, Jonathan Lethem, Jennifer Egan, George Saunders and David Mitchell. . . . For all of Barth’s outrageous experiments, he always seemed to find his way back to the basic moral question that every great fiction writer has tried to wrangle: How should one be?”The New York Times

“[A] playfully erudite author whose darkly comic and complicated novels revolved around the art of literature and launched countless debates over the art of fiction.”The Guardian

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