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Considered by critics to be Barth's most distinguished novel, The Sot-Weed Factor has purchased the status of today's classic. Occur the late 1600s, it recounts the chaotic odyssey of the hapless, ungainly Ebeneezer Cooke. Cooke is delivered to the New World to oversee his father's cigarette business and also to record the struggles of the Maryland colony in an epic poem. On his quest, he is captured by pirates and Indians; loses his father's property to roguish impostors; comes deeply in love with a former prostitute; is nearly robbed of his virginity, which he is (almost) determined to protect; and satisfies a gallery of treacherous character types who continually swap identities. The Sot-Weed Factor is a entertaining, bawdy tribute to all the most insidious real human vices with sustained relevance for listeners of most times.
