Floating Opera

John Barth

earliest edition we have, 1967 Columbia University Press, 2015 276 pages

"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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Floating Opera edition · 2015 · Columbia University Press · 276 pages · 9781564789181
THE FLOATING OPERA edition · 1980 · Bantam Books · 9780553140606
The Floating Opera edition · 1967 · Doubleday · 9780385076302
The Floating Opera. edition · Bantam · 9780553074598

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