The Sot-Weed 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