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ISBN-10: 1564789187
ISBN-13: 9781564789181
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Publish Date: 10/30/2015
Dimensions: 8.50" L, 5.50" W, 0.80" H

Floating Opera

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Written when John Barth was 24 years old, The Floating Opera is his first novel, published in 1957. It is a first-person reminiscence of the day Todd Andrews decided to commit suicide. 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.

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"His ability to contrive a really preposterous situation is impressive. His gift of gab is impressive, too." –New York Times

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Details

ISBN-10: 1564789187
ISBN-13: 9781564789181
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Publish Date: 10/30/2015
Dimensions: 8.50" L, 5.50" W, 0.80" H
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