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Giles GoatBoy
Author: John Barth
A 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.
ISBN-13: 9780449235249
ISBN-10: 0449235246
Publication Date: 4/12/1978
Pages: 766
Edition: Revised
Rating:
  • Currently 2.3/5 Stars.
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2.3 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: Fawcett
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 0
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John Barth is clearly a genius, a comic genius of the first order.


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