Giles goat-boy
by Barth, John
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- Hardcover
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, 1966. Edition limitedto 250 copies signed by Barth (this, no. 125); 8vo, pp. [2], xxxi, [1], 710; original beige cloth lettered in brown on spine, publisher's slipcase. A fine copy.
Synopsis
Giles Goat-Boy (or The Revised New Syllabus of George Giles our Grand Tutor) is a 1966 novel written by John Barth. It is a satire and allegory of the American campus culture of the time. A paperback edition was issued in Garden City, N.Y. by Anchor Books in 1987 with ISBN 0-385-24086-4 . It is centered on the hero, George Giles, and his rise from farm animal to Grand Tutor of the New Tammany College. His quest is singularly to be a hero, but the tale is a multifaceted one of his becoming.
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- Bookseller
- Rulon-Miller Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45078
- Title
- Giles goat-boy
- Author
- Barth, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, N.Y.
- Date Published
- 1966
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