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“robert coover”

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  • The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.

    by Robert Coover ...
    Considered one of the best baseball novels of all time, this black comedy about a discontented businessman's obsession with a fantasy baseball league of his own creation is "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" meets William Gaddis meets John Updike's Rabbit, Run.Somewhere in a "major-league" American city, there lives a man named J. Henry Waugh—no-account accountant, barfly, and country music fan. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Noir

    A Novel

    by Robert Coover ...
    "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 Investigator. A mysterious young widow hires you to find her husband's killer—if he was killed. Then your client is killed and her body disappear—if she was your client. Your search for clues takes you through all levels ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Huck Out West

    A Novel

    by 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 SupplementAt the end of Huckleberry Finn, on the eve of the Civil War, Huck and Tom Sawyer decide to escape "sivilization" and "light out for the Territory." In Robert Coover's vision of their Western adventures, Tom decides he'd rather own ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Going for a Beer

    Selected Short Fictions

    by 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, The New York Times Book ReviewRobert Coover has been playing by his own rules for more than half a century, earning the 1987 Rea Award for the Short Story as "a writer who has managed, willfully and even ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Public Burning

    by 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 use living historical figures as characters, the novel reimagines the three fateful days in 1953 that culminated with the execution of alleged atomic spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Vice-President Richard Nixon - the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Spanking the Maid

    by Robert Coover ...
    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 bathroom are the only places where the two characters meet, and every day it is the same. The maid comes to the bedroom to clean. She inevitably forgets something -- the soap, fresh sheets, a bucket -- or does ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Pricksongs and Descants

    by Robert Coover ...
    Pricksongs & Descants, originally published in 1969, is a virtuoso performance that established its author - already a William Faulkner Award winner for his first novel - as a writer of enduring power and unquestionable brilliance, a promise he has fulfilled over a stellar career. It also began Coover's now-trademark riffs on fairy tales and bedtime stories. In these riotously word-drunk fictional ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Gerald's Party

    by Robert Coover ...
    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. Around the corpse, one of several the evening produces, Gerald's party goes on - a chatter of voices, names, faces, overheard gags, rounds of storytelling, and a mounting curve of desire. What Coover has ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Brunist Day of Wrath

    by Robert Coover ...
    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 characters, varying points of view and the usage of language that Coover has been renowned for these past nearly fifty years. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears?

    by Robert Coover ...
    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 known as Gloomy Gus. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Cat in the Hat for President

    A Political Fable

    by Robert Coover ...
    A reissued classic; Robert Coover is one of America's best-known living authorsPerfect for the Trump EraNever before released in paperback--or with this, its original titleWith a new introduction by the author ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Pinocchio in Venice

    by Robert Coover ...
    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 discourse on what it means to be human; a hilarious, bawdy adventure; and a fitting tribute to the history, grandeur, and decay of Venice itself. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD