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Giles goat-boy

or, The revised new syllabus.

by John Barth · 1966

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George, also known as Billy Bockfuss and as Giles, was raised as a goat rather than as a boy by a brilliant atomic physicist whose guilt about the bomb has driven him to the country. George sets out to become the messianic Grand Tutor of a university and to conquer the terrible Wescac computer system that threatens to destroy his community in this brilliant 'fantasy of theology, sociology, and sex.'

College studentsFictionAmerican fiction (fictional works by one author)