The ancestor of one character in this novel became the king of the Ahatchwhoops by defeating Attonce
The ancestor of one character in this novel became the king of the Ahatchwhoops by defeating Attonce in an eating contest. The protagonist is forced to marry Susan Warren, who is really the prostitute Joan Toast, after signing away his estate Malden to William Smith, who may be an agent of John Coode. This novel features a secret diary of John Smith, and its protagonist, a "virgin poet" tutored by Henry Burlingame III, is commissioned by Charles Calvert to write a Marylandiad, but ends up writing the title satire instead. FTP, identify this 1960 novel about the poet Ebenezer Cooke, a novel by John Barth whose name refers to an agent for tobacco.
The ancestor of one character in this novel became the king of the Ahatchwhoops by defeating Attonce in an eating contest.