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Giles Goat-Boy (1966) is the fourth novel by American writer John Barth. It is a metafictional comic novel that portrays the world as a university campus in an elaborate allegory of the Cold War. The title character, Giles Goat-Boy, is a human boy raised as a goat who comes to believe he is the Grand Tutor, the predicted Messiah. The book is a surprise bestseller for the previously obscure Barth, and in the 1960s had a cult status. It marks Barth's leap into American postmodern Fabulism.
First publish date: April 12, 1978
Genre: Literary Fiction/Experimental Fiction
Authors: John Barth
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