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...Giles Goat-Boy, Barth...
GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Barth. All the world's a college campus, and practically every philosophy is out in the pillory in this bizarre novel about a boy who aspires to become the messiah of a new religion...
...Giles Goat-Boy, Barth...
GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Barth. A labyrinth of intellectual booby traps leads into the deadpan center of a "university," which is Earth's metaphor for a mad, mad, mad world...
GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Earth. In this novel, which might be called metaphysical science fiction, Barth takes a boy who might be a goat-or a goat who might be the protagonist-into a nightmare collegiate world, which, by flashes of phosphorescent light, might seem to resemble our own. A distinguished puzzle...