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George Giles encounters new people and ideas as he ascends from a goat farm to the position of Grand Tutor of the human university
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(in full Giles Goat-Boy; or, The Revised New Syllabus) Satiric allegorical novel by John Barth, published in 1966. The book is set in a vast university that is a symbol for the world. The novel's protagonist, Billy Bockfuss (also called George Giles, the goat-boy), was raised with herds of goats on a university farm after being found as a baby in the bowels of the giant West Campus Automatic Computer (WESCAC). The WESCAC plans to create a being called GILES (Grand-Tutorial Ideal, Laboratory Eugenical Specimen) that would possess superhuman abilities. Billy's foster father, who tends the herd, suspects Billy of being GILES but tries to groom him to be humanity's savior and to stop WESCAC's domination over humans. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
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- PublisherFawcett Crest Book
- Publication date1968
- ISBN 10 0140027289
- ISBN 13 9780140027280
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages816
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