In this outrageously farcical adventure, hero George Giles sets out to conquer the terrible Wescac computer system that threatens to destroy his community in this brilliant "fantasy of theology, sociology, and sex" (Time).
About the Author: John Barth was born on May 27, 1930, in Cambridge, Maryland.
His other works are Chimera (1972), a collection of three novellas, which won the National Book Award
Letters (1979), an epistolary novel
Sabbatical: A Romance (1982); and The Friday Book (1984), a collection of essays..
Lost in the Funhouse, a book of interconnected stories, earned him a second nomination for the National Book Award.
Giles Goat-Boy (1966) was a huge critical and commercial success, after which he revised and republished his first three novels.
In 1960, The Sot-Weed Factor--a comic historical novel--established Barth\'s reputation.
The End of the Road (1958) was also critically praised.
Barth\'s first novel, The Floating Opera (1956), was nominated for the National Book Award.
He has held professorships at Pennsylvania State University, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and Boston University, and taught in the English and creative writing programs at Johns Hopkins.
He received his BA from Johns Hopkins in 1951 and his MA in 1952.
As a student at Johns Hopkins University he was fascinated by Oriental tale-cycles and medieval collections, a body of literature that would later influence his own writing.
In this outrageously farcical adventure, hero George Giles sets out to conquer the terrible Wescac computer system that threatens to destroy his community in this brilliant "fantasy of theology, sociology, and sex" (Time).
About the Author: John Barth was born on May 27, 1930, in Cambridge, Maryland
