The End of the Road is the second novel by American writer John Barth, published first in 1958, and then in a revised edition in 1967. The irony-laden black comedy 's protagonist Jacob Horner suffers from a nihilistic paralysis he calls "cosmopsis"—an inability to choose a course of action from all possibilities.

The End of the Road. The End of the Road is one of Tom Bodett’s humorous fiction stories. The title is derived from a small fictional town in Alaska with a population of people with oddball traits than you can shake a salmon at.

Its first-person protagonist, Jacob Horner, suffers from nihilistic paralysis: an inability to choose a course of action. As part of a schedule of unorthodox therapies, Horner's nameless Doctor has him take a teaching job at a local teachers college.

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Revised ed. of this title originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1967. First Bantam ed., Oct. 1969. "This ... has been completely reset ... and was printed from new plates ... "--T.p. verso. [Rev. ed.]. A Bantam Windstone Book.

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The novel is a darkly humorous exploration of existential themes, following the story of a man who, after a suicide attempt, is rescued by a doctor specializing in "mythotherapy."