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Floating Opera

John Barth

1956276 pagesabout 4–6 hours
1956
first published
  • 1956Appleton-Century-Crofts
  • 1967DoubledayISBN 9780385076302
  • 1969Avon
  • 1970Avon Books
  • 1980Bantam BooksISBN 9780553140606
  • 2015Columbia University Press · 276 pages · ENGISBN 9781564789181
  • BantamISBN 9780553074598

"Written when John Barth was 24 years old, The Floating Opera is his first novel, published in 1957. It is a first-person reminiscence of the day Todd Andrews decided to commit suicide. Having picked up some sense of the French Existentialist writers from the postwar Zeitgeist, this novel questions life's value through the eyes of a 37-year-old man."--Back cover.

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