Giles Goat Boy

✍ Scribed by John Barth

• Book ID: 100401563
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 1966
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780804152495

✦ Synopsis

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Paperback/ebook, 748 pages
Published 1966
Anchor Books (2014)
Anthony Burgess- Best in English (1939-1983)
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).
Giles Goat-Boy (1966) is the 4th novel by American writer John Barth. It's metafictional comic novel in which the world is portrayed as a university campus in an elaborate allegory of the Cold War. Its title character is a human boy raised as a goat, who comes to believe he is the Grand Tutor, the predicted Messiah. The book was a surprise bestseller for the previously obscure Barth, & in the 1960s had a cult status. It marks Barth's leap into American postmodern Fabulism.