# Coming Soon!!!

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- Book: [Coming Soon!!!](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-barth/coming-soon) ([Coming Soon!!!.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-barth/coming-soon.md))
- Authors: [John Barth](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-barth)
- Publisher: atlantic_books
- ISBN: 978-18-4354-016-8
- Published: 2003-08-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

‘We need more novels as innovative and exciting as this’ Matt Thorne, New Statesman By turns hilarious and brilliant, Coming Soon!!! is the tale of two writers: an retiring novelist setting out to write his last work and a young writer of hypertext intent on toppling his master. They race each other to write a novel about a floating opera and the heat of the rivalry, the writers navigate – and sometimes stumble over – the fault lines between print and electronic fiction, mentor and mentored, postmodernism and modernism. Coming Soon!!! is an extraordinary addition to Barth’s distinguished career, a series of books that has shaped contemporary literature. ‘Virtuosic brilliance… a bravura novel’ Observer ‘Infinitely clever’ Time Out ‘Delightful’ San Francisco Chronicle ‘A fitting capstone to a body of work that overtowers that of most other writers of his generation’ Washington Post