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1.The Sot-Weed Factor (The Anchor Literary Library)The Sot-Weed Factor (The Anchor Literary Library)
from Anchor
Price: $13.57

Customer Review:
Barth surely had great fun writing this book, but it is far too long and self-indulgent with all sorts of behind-the-hand snickering at the author's tricks and wiles. Not recommended.

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2.Lost in the Funhouse (The Anchor Literary Library)Lost in the Funhouse (The Anchor Literary Library)
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Price: $11.16

Customer Review:
In his introduction to this collection of tales, John Barth warns that writing shorting stories isn't his strong suit; he'd rather write novels. Well, I thought, you don't have to read the goat entrails to see this isn't an auspicious augur since *reading* short stories isn't my mine; I prefer... more info

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3.The Floating Opera and The End of the RoadThe Floating Opera and The End of the Road
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Price: $11.53

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In THE FLOATING OPERA the main character's name is Todd Andrews. The focus is on a day, June 21, 1937. Todd is 54 years old and six feet tall. The Floating Opera is the name of a showboat. Jane Mack is Todd's mistress. Harrison Mack, her husband, is Todd's excellent friend. The hero has a weak heart... more info

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4.[no image]End of the Road
from Bantam Books

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I read it in 2007, i.e. more than 30 years after it was written, so it somehow may seem dated.
But the style is nice, peculiar, sometimes even funny and the issues must have been very hard and unheard in those times, so my advice is:
read it.

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5.Giles Goat Boy (The Anchor Literary Library)Giles Goat Boy (The Anchor Literary Library)
from Anchor
Price: $20.70

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This theological, philosophical, sociological mélange of political (Cold War or "Quiet Riot") satire, of a sort, wordplay and quasi-Bildungsroman and whatever else it may or may not be, all coded into a cutesy academese, didn't do too much for me---except make me laugh, along with it, not at... more info

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6.ChimeraChimera
from Mariner Books
Price: $10.17

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John Barth is considered the high priest of post-modern literature, and he engages in all the tricks of the trade of this variety of literature in Chimera. The novel is deeply aware of itself as a text, with authorial intrusions, reminders of page number and previous references in the book, a... more info

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7.The Tidewater Tales (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)The Tidewater Tales (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)
from The Johns Hopkins University Press
Price: $19.75

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Peter is a working class successful writer who has become blocked and so begs his well heeled wife (Katherine) who is 8 ½ months pregnant to set him a task. She does which is to tell stories as they sail around the Chesapeake Bay (a 200 mile long estuary on the Virginia and Maryland... more info

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8.The Book of Ten Nights and a Night: Eleven StoriesThe Book of Ten Nights and a Night: Eleven Stories
from Houghton Mifflin
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9.Sabbatical: A Romance (American Literature Series)Sabbatical: A Romance (American Literature Series)
from Dalkey Archive Press
Price: $12.95

Customer Review:
A newspaper article mentioned Barth in passing and a used book rack supplied Sabbatical. It's hard to draw reference points for Barth with Sabbatical, but it I suppose a nautically-minded, Cold War-centric Umberto Eco is the best I can do. The book is firmly fixed in the pantheon of post-modern... more info

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10.Where Three Roads Meet: Novellas (.)Where Three Roads Meet: Novellas (.)
from Houghton Mifflin
Price: $18.40

Customer Review:
Where Three Roads Meet will appeal to the most ardent Barth fans. If you love deconstructing a story more than reading one, you'll love this one. Actually, it's 3 stories, each more stripped of narrative structure than the last, and all meeting each other, of course. Barth is clearly having fun with... more info

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