The Sot-Weed Factor Soviet Union " —Edmund White

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The Sot-Weed Factor Soviet Union " —Edmund WhiteBy John Barth ISBN: 9781628973945 Publication Date: 9 19 23 Description Considered by critics to be Barth's most distinguished masterpiece, The Sot Weed Factor has acquired the status of a modern classic. Set in the late 1600s, it recounts the wildly chaotic odyssey of hapless, ungainly Ebenezer Cooke, sent to the New World to look after his father's tobacco business and to record the struggles of the Maryland colony in an epic poem. On his mission,