Floating Opera / The End of the Road
  • Published:
    Mar-1997
  • Type:
    Previously released story collection
  • ISBN:
    0385240899
    9780385240895
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List of Titles

Author Book Series Genre Date Rating Genre      
General Fiction / GF 3
General Fiction / GF 5
  • Description:
    The Floating Opera and The End Of The Road are John Barth's first two novels.  Their relationship to each other is evident not only in their ribald subject matter but in the eccentric characters and bitterly humorous tone of the narratives. Both concern strange, consuming love triangles and the destructive effect of an overactive intellect on the emotions. Separately they give two very different views of a universal human drama. Together they illustrate the beginnings of an illustrious career.