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Author: John Barth

📘 The Floating Opera and The End of the Road by John Barth

Tells the stories of a man's struggle with the idea of suicide and of a bed-hopping threesome brought together by a strange doctor-psychiatrist-mentor.

First publish date: 1988

Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction

Authors: John Barth

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