Written when John Barth was 24 years old, The Floating Opera is his first novel, published in 1957.
He taught for many years on the writing programme at John Hopkins University.
He is the author of The Sot-Weed Factor, The Tidewater Tales, Lost in the Funhouse, The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor and the National Book Award winner Chimera.
He stands alongside Thomas Pynchon as one of the innovative giants of post-war fiction.
About the Author: John Barth was born in Cambridge, Maryland in 1930.
Having picked up some sense of the French Existentialist writers from the postwar Zeitgeist, this novel questions life\'s value through the eyes of a 37-year-old man.
It is a first-person reminiscence of the day Todd Andrews decided to commit suicide.
Written when John Barth was 24 years old, The Floating Opera is his first novel, published in 1957
