The End of the Road

The End of the Road (1958, revised 1967) is John Barth's second novel. It follows Jacob Horner as he deals with an extreme case of psychological paralysis. After undergoing a series of unusual therapies with a strange "Doctor", Jacob Horner, a chameleon-like graduate student gets a job as a grammar teacher at Wicomico State Teachers College. There he meets Joe Morgan, an existentialist who has forsaken both objective and subjective values and wants to live based on his understanding of the groundi... [ Read More at Wikipedia ]