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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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- PublisherSecker & Warburg
- Publication date1967
- ISBN 10 0436033704
- ISBN 13 9780436033704
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages744
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GILES GOAT-BOY, OR, THE REVISED NEW SYLLABUS.
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Secker & Warburg,, London,
(1967)
ISBN 10: 0436033704
ISBN 13: 9780436033704
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First U.k. Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. pp xxxiii, 710. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered gilt on spine. Review copy with publishers printed review slip loosely inserted. Including 4to. grey folder, publicity packet, containing press cuttings, synopsis, promotion strategies and colour reproduction of the dust jacket. Front panel of jacket designed by Kenneth Reilly. Top fore-edge slightly weathered, otherwise very good+ in clean, very good dust jacket, with slight rubbing at edges and very slight nicking. Decent copy. Seller Inventory # C23524
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