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Fiction for print, tape, live voice is john barth s response to a gauntlet marshall mcluhan was throwing down back in the heady days of the sixties regarding the immanent demise of the work of art as printed text and the subsequent decline in the fortunes of the gutenberg family. Any attempt to describe john barths giles goatboy ggb is going to oversimplify what is a vast, complex masterpiece of a book. Barth s next novel, giles goat boy, of comparable size, is a speculative fiction based on the conceit of the university as universe. Giles goatboy by john barth overview 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. John barth s fiction has won the national book award, the penmalamud award, and the lannan foundation lifetime achievement award. John barths novel is almost as long as the king james version, with roughly the same plot line, but with a sprinkling of burroughs both edgar rice and the computer corp. These three sexy novellas prove once again that barth is one of the best we have when it comes to getting to the heart of the story rocky mountain news.
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