The Sot-Weed Factor: A Novel (American Literature) - Tapa blanda

"John Barth's "The Sot-Weed Factor" is a brilliantly specialized performance . . . A bare-knuckled satire of humanity at large." "The New York Times""

"Barth's language is impossibly rich, a wickedly funny take on old English rhetoric and American self-appraisals. For good measure he throws in stories within stories, including the funniest retelling of the Pocahontas tale . . . that anyone has ever dared to tell." TIME Best 100 Novels"

"Here [is] a masterly act of authorial ventriloquism, a vivid recreation of the cadences and vocabulary, the mind-set and mores (or lack thereof) of English colonists in America s mid-Atlantic region in the late 1600 s . . . Ebenezer describes himself as 'a morsel for the wide world s lions.' What a gorgeous set-up for a satire." The Millions"

"John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor is a brilliantly specialized performance . . . A bare-knuckled satire of humanity at large." The New York Times"

This is Barth's most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is "one of the most diverting...to roam the world since Candide" (Time ).