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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, his short story ?The Babysitter, ? took the literary world by storm. Described as ?metafiction at its best, ? his work is taught in classrooms more than half a century later, no less relevant?and irreverent?than at its debut. Provocative, ex...

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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 is, just the first of the night), as the guests indulge in drinking, flirting and jealousies, and the police make their brutal investigations.

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Robert 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 perversely, to remain his own man while offering his generous vision and versions of America." Here, in this selection of his best stories, you will find an invisible man tragically obsessed by an invisible woman, a cartoon man in a cartoon car who runs over a real man who...

Fifty years after the original release of Coover's satire, this rollicking fable of the grotesque, unhinged Cat in the Hat (and the stuffed shirts who bet on his success) makes for a bitterly funny indictment of politics-as-usual in 2017.

A collection of the best short fiction from the grandmaster of postmodernism. The 30 stories in "Going for a Beer" confirm Coover's reputation as "one of America's greatest literary geniuses" (Alan Moore).

Turns the detective story upside down and inside out. Chinatown meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Robert 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 perversely, to remain his own man while offering his generous vision and versions of America." Coover finds inspiration in everything from painting, cinema, theater, and dance to slapstick, magic acts, puzzles, and riddles. His 1969 story "The Babysitter" has alone inspire...

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

At the end of Mark Twain's 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 [book], also 'wrote by Huck, ' the boys do just that, riding for the famous but short-lived Pony Express, then working as scouts for both sides in the war ... This period, from the middle of the Civil War to the centennial year of 1876, is probably the most formative...

La vicenda è provocatoria e ossessiva: un indissolubile legame di schiavitù reciproca lega un uomo e la sua cameriera. Tutte le mattine lei entra nella camera da letto di lui, sperando di svolgere il proprio compito alla perfezione, ma lui non fa che rilevare inesistenti manchevolezze. Tutto si svolge all'insegna della reiterazione: ogni mattina lei trova sotto le lenzuola oggetti strani, spaventosi, lui racconta un sogno ricorrente, lei si pr...

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