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"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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4 editions- Other · English · 2015Columbia University Press · 276 pages · 9781564789181
- Other · English · 1980THE FLOATING OPERABantam Books · 9780553140606
- Other · English · 1967The Floating OperaDoubleday · 9780385076302
- Other · EnglishThe Floating Opera.Bantam · 9780553074598
Fiction, psychologicalSuicideFiction
