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Considered by critics to be Barth's masterpiece, The Sot-Weed Factor has acquired the status of a modern classic. Set in the late 1600s, it recounts the wildly chaotic odyssey of hapless, ungainly Ebenezer Cooke, sent to the New World to look after his father's tobacco business & to record the struggles of the Maryland colony in an epic poem. On his mission, Cooke experiences capture by pirates & Indians; the loss of his father's estate to roguish impostors; love for a farmer prostitute; stealthy efforts to rob him of his virginity, which he's almost determined to protect; & an extraordinary gallery of treacherous characters who continually switch identities. A hilarious, bawdy tribute to all the most insidious human vices, The Sot-Weed Factor has lasting relevance for all readers.
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The Sot-Weed Factor, John Barth
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1972
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- Titel
- The Sot-Weed Factor
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- John Barth
- Verlag
- Panther
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1972
- Einband
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0586018921
- ISBN13
- 9780586018927
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historische Romane, Humor, Klassiker, Amerikanische Literatur
- Originaltitel
- The sot-weed factor
- Bewertung
- 4,1 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- Considered by critics to be Barth's masterpiece, The Sot-Weed Factor has acquired the status of a modern classic. Set in the late 1600s, it recounts the wildly chaotic odyssey of hapless, ungainly Ebenezer Cooke, sent to the New World to look after his father's tobacco business & to record the struggles of the Maryland colony in an epic poem. On his mission, Cooke experiences capture by pirates & Indians; the loss of his father's estate to roguish impostors; love for a farmer prostitute; stealthy efforts to rob him of his virginity, which he's almost determined to protect; & an extraordinary gallery of treacherous characters who continually switch identities. A hilarious, bawdy tribute to all the most insidious human vices, The Sot-Weed Factor has lasting relevance for all readers.