The Sot-Weed FactorThis 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." "A feast. Dense, funny, endlessly inventive (and, OK, yes, long winded) this satire of the eighteenth century picaresque novelthink Fielding's Tom Jones or Sterne's Tristram Shandyis also an earnest picture of the pitfalls awaiting

and today is no exception

they wander around Bergen in the rain

allowing it to maintain global supremacy

and Latin America

and discovering at last a strange triumph in loss

This extraordinary debut

Jennie Suddick

a family whose faces melt away

For some fifty years

she leaves us singed

Published right as the world changed in early 2020

Inspired by Jost Hochuli's standard work "Detail in Typography"