The SotWeed Factor Author:John Barth The great American novel of anti-Americana. — "outrageously funny, villainously slanderous...The book is a bare-knuckled satire of humanity at large...Barth's masterstroke is an alleged secret journal of Capt. John Smith. Its version of the Pocahontas story is truly Rabelaisian and marvelously executed."-The New York Times Book Review — "The Sot ... more »Wed Factor is that rare literary creation-a genuinely serius comedy...Ebenezer Cooke, in this boisterous historical farce, emerges as one of the most diverting heroes to roam the world since Candide."-Time« less