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 So... more »t-Weed Factor is that rare literary creation--a genuinely serious comedy...Ebenezer Cooke, in this boisterous historical farce, emerges as one of the most diverting heroes to roam the world since Candide." --Time« less