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The Floating Opera and The End of the Road are John Barth's first two novels. Both concern strange, consuming love triangles and the destructive effect of an overactive intellect on human emotions. Separately they give two very different views of a universal human drama.
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The End of the Road
by John Barth (Author)
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“That will-o'-the wisp, the law: where shall I begin to speak of it?...I think I'm not interested in what the law is.”
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“My prose is a plodding, graceless thing, and I've no comprehension of stylistic tricks.”
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To someone like myself, whose literary activities have been confined since 1920 mainly to legal briefs and Inquiry-writing, the hardest thing about the task at hand-viz., the explanation of a day in 1937 when I changed my mind--is getting into it.
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- John Barth (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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