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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 use living historical figures as characters,… More
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John’s Wife Robert Coover
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 and wrong.… More
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A Night at the Movies Robert Coover
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… More
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Gerald’s Party 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,… More
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Ghost Town Robert Coover
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 out. The lonesome stranger… More
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Pinocchio in Venice 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… More
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Pricksongs and Descants 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 … More
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The Origin of the Brunists Robert Coover
Originally published in 1969 and now back in print after over a decade, Robert Coover’s first novel instantly established his mastery. A coal-mine explosion in a small mid-American town claims ninety-seven… More
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Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears? 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… More
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Spanking the Maid 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.… More
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John’s Wife Robert Coover
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 and wrong.… More
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The Brunist Day of Wrath Robert Coover
The Brunist Day of Wrath, the long-awaited sequel to the award-winning The Origin of the Brunists, is both a scathing indictment of fundamentalism and a careful examination of a world where religion competes with … More