Автор: Robert Coover

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Toby Olson has published eight novels, the most recent of which, The Blond Box, appeared from Fiction Collective-2 in 2003, and numerous books of poetry, including Human Nature (New Directions). A new novel, The Bitter Half, is forthcoming. The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts, Olson’s novel Seaview received the PEN/Faulkner award for The Most Distinguished Work of American Fiction in 1983. Toby Olson lives in Philadelphia and in North Truro, on Cape Cod.Robert Coover teaches in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. Coover”s first novel was The Origin of the Brunists. The Public Burning, his most well-known work, looks at the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg through the lens of magical realism. His later works include: Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears, the theme anthology A Night at the Movies and Pinocchio in Venice. Coover helped found the Electronic Literature Organization.




20 Електронні книги від Robert Coover

Robert Coover: The Brunist Day of Wrath
The sequel to Coover’s award-winning The Origin of the Brunists, takes a look at religion, cults, myths, and how small towns relying on slowly dying businesses mesh together with an amazing cast of …
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Robert Coover: A Night at the Movies
Previews, coming attractions, horror, romance, mystery, even intermissions–you name the type of movie and there’s a fiction within this collection to cover it–all written with the exuberance you’ …
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Robert Coover: Gerald’s Party
Robert Coover’s wicked and surreally comic novel takes place at a chilling, ribald, and absolutely fascinating party. Amid the drunken guests, a woman turns up murdered on the living room floor. Ar …
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Robert Coover: Ghost Town
A nameless rider plods through the desert toward a dusty Western town shimmering on the horizon. In his latest novel, Robert Coover has taken the familiar form of the Western and turned it inside o …
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Robert Coover: John’s Wife
A satirical fable of small-town America centers on a builder’s wife and the erotic power she exerts over her neighbors, transforming before their eyes and changing forever their notions of right an …
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Robert Coover: Pinocchio in Venice
Internationally renowned author Robert Coover returns with a major new novel set in Venice and featuring one of its most famous citizens, Pinocchio. The result is a brilliant philosophical discours …
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Robert Coover: The Public Burning
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 use living historic …
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Robert Coover: Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears?
Interweaves the fate of a cast of passionate–and lunatic–idealists of the Depression Era Left, and the rise and fall of a poet, womanizer, actor, union sympathizer and All-American football star …
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Robert Coover: Spanking the Maid
Written early in Coover’s illustrious career, Spanking the Maid is an impeccable and spellbinding novel about a master, his maid, and the irresistible ritual that binds them. A bedroom and a bathro …
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Robert Coover: Noir
"Metafiction lustily mates with hard-boiled mystery in this hilarious homage to Raymond Chandler and company." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)You are Philip M. Noir, Private …
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Robert Coover: Briar Rose & Spanking the Maid
These two novellas by the groundbreaking, fearless, and immeasurably influential Robert Coover are dirty, funny and brilliant. In Briar Rose a sleeping beauty is trapped in an enchantment for a …
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Robert Coover: Gerald’s Party
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 corpse (it …
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Robert Coover: Pricksongs & Descants
In his carnivalesque and riotously inventive Pricksongs & Descants Robert Coover remakes old stories: of Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, and Beauty (who married her Beast and spends a lifetime …
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Robert Coover: Romance of the Thin Man and the Fat Lady
‘Paul stepped off the curb and got hit by a truck. He didn’t know what it was that hit him at first, but now, here on his back, under the truck, there could be no doubt.’One of 50 original and …
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Robert Coover: Babysitter
‘She arrives at 7.40, ten minutes late…’ She babysits for Mr and Mrs Tucker. She has left a boyfriend alone for the evening. From this seemingly simple start Robert Coover masterfully explores the …
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Robert Coover: Huck Out West: A Novel
‘An audacious and revisionary sequel to Twain’s masterpiece. It is both true to the spirit of Twain and quintessentially Cooveresque.’ —Times Literary Supplement At the end of Huckleberry Finn, on …
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Robert Coover: Going For a Beer: Selected Short Fictions
“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, The N …
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Bradford Morrow: Affinity
New writings on the topic of friendship from Stephen O’Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Clark, Elizabeth Gaffney, Rick Moody and Darcey Steinke, and more. Aristotle proposed that a friend is, …
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Bradford Morrow: Fifty Contemporary Writers
From a PEN Award winner for Literary Editing: ‘;Arguably the most distinguished journal of prose and poetry in America.’ Elle Conjunctions’ milestone fiftieth issue gathers together the many voices, …
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Bradford Morrow: Inside Out
New writings—on rooms, buildings, and the spaces and structures that surround us—from Robert Coover, Joyce Carol Oates, Joanna Scott, and more.   From huts to houses to high-rises, …
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