'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
- ISBN10 1843540169
- ISBN13 9781843540168
- Publish Date 14 August 2003 (first published 4 March 2002)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 April 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Atlantic Books
- Edition Main
- Format Paperback
- Pages 416
- Language English