{"product_id":"giles-goatboy-isbn-9780385240864","title":"Giles Goat-Boy","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of National Book Award-nominated \u003ci\u003eLost in the Funhouse\u003c\/i\u003e, comes an outrageously farcical adventure that challenges our notions of technology, power, and human nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Barth] ran riot over literary rules and conventions, even as he displayed, with meticulous discipline, mastery of and respect for them.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eGiles Goat-Boy \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of a human boy raised as a goat who comes to believe that he is humanity's prophesied messiah. In an absurdist universe that takes the form of a unversity--divided into an authoritarian East Campus and a more open West Campus--young George Giles rises to assume the title of Grand Tutor, the spiritual leader of the world and heroic defender of his people against the threat of a tyrannical computer system. Hailed as a \"fantasy of theology, sociology, and sex\" (\u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003emagazine), \u003ci\u003eGiles Goat-Boy \u003c\/i\u003ehas long been one of John Barth's most popular and multi-layered narratives.“\u003ci\u003eGiles Goat-Boy\u003c\/i\u003e is a bonkers Cold War allegory that draws from the Bible, \u003ci\u003eOedipus Rex\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e, among other works.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “[Barth’s novels are] distinguished by a wide range of erudition, invention, wit, historical references, whimsy, bawdiness, and a great richness of image and style.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“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?”\u003ci\u003e —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[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.”\u003ci\u003e —\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Barth\u003c\/b\u003e (1930-2024) was an American writer celebrated for his postmodern and metafictional fiction. Barth’s first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Floating Opera\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1956, followed by \u003ci\u003eThe End of the Road. \u003c\/i\u003eBarth achieved critical and commercial success in the 1960s with \u003ci\u003eThe Sot-Weed Factor \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGiles Goat-Boy\u003c\/i\u003e. His collection of interconnected stories, \u003ci\u003eLost in the Funhouse\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1969. His other works include \u003ci\u003eChimera\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of three novellas that won the National Book Award in 1973; \u003ci\u003eLetters\u003c\/i\u003e, an epistolary novel; \u003ci\u003eSabbatical: A Romance\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Friday Book\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of essays.","brand":"Anchor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302660428005,"sku":"NP9780385240864","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780385240864.jpg?v=1767728130","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/giles-goatboy-isbn-9780385240864","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}