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      Coover Stories

      Robert Coover

      Radical and racy, Robert Coover’s Coover Stories is a new collection of incisive, inventive works from the postmodern master.When Robert Coover’s first collection Pricksongs & Descendants came out in 1969…

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      The Public Burning

      Robert Coover

      A controversial best-seller in 1977, The Public Burning has since emerged as one of the most influential novels of our time. The first major work of contemporary fiction ever to…

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      Open House

      Robert Coover

      One hundred floors above Manhattan, a diverse group of guests and gate-crashers come together in a luxurious penthouse. The down-and-out blend seamlessly with the well-to-do. Scammers find themselves the target…

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      Robert Coover and the Generosity of the Page

      Stephane Vanderhaeghe

      An unconventional look at Robert Coover’s work from his early masterpiece The Origin of the Brunists (1966) to the recent Noir (2010), Vanderhaeghe’s study offers a self-reflexive investigation into the…

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      Briar Rose

      Robert Coover

      Briar Rose tells of a prince trapped in the briars, a sleeping beauty who cannot awaken and who dreams of a succession of kissing princes, as the old spell-casting fairy…

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      Ghost Town

      Robert Coover

      Transformed by Robert Coover’s comic energy, Ghost Town has all the elements of the Western epic–heroes and villains, whores and virgins, gunfights, saloon brawls, bank and train robberies–all put together…

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      The Brunist Day of Wrath

      Robert Coover

      The sequel to Robert Coover’s debut novel, the award-winning The Origin of the Brunists

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      Spanking the Maid

      Robert Coover

      Though Coover’s message is bleak, his delivery is wonderfully comic (Bharati Mukherjee, The Globe & Mail (Toronto)) in this spare, tantalizing, and perfect book, named by Daphne Merkin in The…

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      Gerald’s Party

      Robert Coover

      Ros is dead. A bad actress but a tremendous lover, when she was alive her thighs pillowed cast members, crew, friends and acquaintances. Now Gerald’s party continues around her murdered…

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      Pricksongs & Descants: Fictions

      Robert Coover

      Presents a collection of short stories based on traditional fairy tales that expose the futility of idealism.

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      The Adventures of Lucky Pierre

      Robert Coover

      Lucky Pierre is the most famous man in Cinecity, where pornography is the basis of social norms and the mayoral motto is Pro Bono Pubis. He walks to work (the…

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      Origin of the Brunists

      Robert Coover

      Originally published in 1969, Robert Coover’s first novel instantly established his mastery. A coal-mine explosion in a small mid-American town claims ninety-seven lives. The only survivor, a peculiar man subject…

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      Huck Out West: A Novel

      Robert Coover

      An audacious and revisionary sequel to Twain’s masterpiece. It is both true to the spirit of Twain and quintessentially Cooveresque. -Times Literary Supplement

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      Going For a Beer: Selected Short Fictions

      Robert Coover

      A mixtape of variations and a fugue on time from a postmodern master…. Familiar tales and conventional genres are made new, tinged with shuddering wonder and titillating humor. -Yu-Yun Hsieh…

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      Huck Out West: A Novel

      Robert Coover

      Our leading postmodernist novelist turns his iconoclastic eye to a great American classic in this sequel to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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      Postmodern fiction and the Bible: Robert Coover’s rewritings

      Delzi Laranjeira

      Contemporary literature has given special emphasis to the relationship among texts. There has been a tendency to revisit and rework canonized narratives, giving rise to renewed ones. The Bible, for…

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      Night at the Movies

      Robert Coover,Coover Robert

      From Hollywood B-movies to Hollywood classics, ? A Night at the Movies ?invents what might have happened in these Saturday afternoon matinees. Mad scientists, vampires, cowboys, dance-men, Chaplin, and Bogart…

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      Pinocchio in Venice

      Robert Coover

      A very old professor returns to Venice to finish work on his final book, but as he searches for the proper ending, he slowly begins to turn back into wood.

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      The Review of Contemporary Fiction: Robert Coover Festschrift - Spring 2012

      Stephane Vanderhaeghe

      In honor of the 80th birthday of one of the grandmasters of American experimental fiction, editor St phane Vanderhaeghe has gathered critical essays and appreciations by William Gass, John Barth…

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      The Babysitter as the Sexualised Object of Male Fantasies in Robert Coover’s The Babysitter

      Jana Karoff

      Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Mannheim (Amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft), course: 20th Century American Short Fiction, language: English…

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      Comic Sense: Reading Robert Coover, Stanley Elkin, Philip Roth

      Thomas Pughe

      (Karl: 27) Such assessments of course challenge my view that the comic is in significant ways connected with what is innovative in postmodernist US-American fiction. Yet the term comic -or…

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      Parodistic Intertextuality and Intermediality in Postmodern American Fiction: Robert Coover and Kathy Acker

      Matthias Voller

      Inhaltsangabe: Abstract: Reading postmodern fiction - once a term limited to denote a decidedly US-American tendency in contemporary literature but now applicable to a whole range of works that have…

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      Pricksongs & Descants

      Robert Coover

      Remakes old stories: of Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, and Beauty (who married her Beast and spends a lifetime suffering his doggy stink).

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      Robert Coover’s ‘The Babysitter’ - Analyse und Vergleich von Short Story und Film

      Moni Kirner

      Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Komparatistik, Note: 1, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen (Anglistik und Amerikanistik), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Um den Schreibstil von Robert Coover und das Empfinden beim…

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      Gerald’s Party

      Robert Coover

      Ros is dead. A bad actress but a tremendous lover, when she was alive her thighs pillowed cast members, crew, friends and acquaintances. Now Gerald’s party continues around her murdered…

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      Huck Out West

      Robert Coover

      Our leading postmodernist novelist turns his iconoclastic eye on a great American classic, evoking the language and irreverent spirit of Mark Twain.

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      Huck Out West

      Robert Coover

      Our leading postmodernist novelist turns his iconoclastic eye on a great American classic, evoking the language and irreverent spirit of Mark Twain.

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      Huck Out West

      Robert Coover

      Our leading postmodernist novelist turns his iconoclastic eye on a great American classic, evoking the language and irreverent spirit of Mark Twain.

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      The Lime Twig

      John Hawkes

      This volume brings together three early novels by John Hawkes. The Lime Twig is set in the underworld of postwar London; Second Skin is a tale of suicide and new…

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      Going for a Beer: Selected Short Fictions

      Robert Coover

      A mixtape of variations and a fugue on time from a postmodern master…. Familiar tales and conventional genres are made new, tinged with shuddering wonder and titillating humor. -Yu-Yun Hsieh…

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      Going for a Beer: Selected Short Fictions

      Robert Coover

      A mixtape of variations and a fugue on time from a postmodern master…. Familiar tales and conventional genres are made new, tinged with shuddering wonder and titillating humor. -Yu-Yun Hsieh…

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      Going for a Beer: Selected Short Fictions

      Robert Coover

      A mixtape of variations and a fugue on time from a postmodern master…. Familiar tales and conventional genres are made new, tinged with shuddering wonder and titillating humor. -Yu-Yun Hsieh…

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      Not Normal, Illinois: Peculiar Fictions from the Flyover

      Max Apple,Joel Brouwer

      Do Midwesterners have a peculiar way of looking at the world? Is there something not quite right about the way they see things? For such a normal place, the heartland…

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