books by Robert Coover     books:     Robert Coover      Pricksongs & Descants: Fictions Robert Coover Grove Press, 2000 An under-the-radar masterpiece Somehow, over the years, Robert Coover has been denied the status he deserves as one of America's most original and celebrated satirists of all things red white & blue. Although almost 40 years old now, this collection of short stories still displays Coover's protean ...             The Public Burning (Coover, Robert) Robert Coover Grove Press, 1998 Thanks, Kevin It's good to have red-baiting reviewers like Kevin Bowman to prove Robert Coover's point a half-century after the Rosenbergs died and nearly thirty years after his book appeared. Gee, even an evil intellectual ("vindictive college professor") turns up in Kevin's ...             A Night at the Movies, or, You Must Remember This Robert Coover Dalkey Archive Press, 2007 Great selection of short stories with cinematic themes... You must remember this features the love of Rick and Ilse as you've never imagined it before. Other stories offer a colorful though often sadistic portrayal of the place where reality meets the celluloid imaginings that too often seem to dominate our lives. ...             Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds Robert Coover, Maureen Gibbon, ... Chronicle Books, 2007 buy it cheaper Just as Taschen are releasing a 2nd edition of the massive 'Stanley Kubrik Archives' on October 8, so too are Chronicle Books, releasing a 2nd edition of this huge book of Playboy centrefolds with a $50 retail and $36.50 Amazon pre-order price. - Oct.4 At this moment, ...             Stepmother (Coover, Robert) Robert Coover McSweeney's, 2004 Coover at his best This is a fairy tale for adults, with all the elements of those tales you knew as children, but more. The book is an easy read, entertaining, and only long enough for a short afternoon or evening. The content, illustrations, and binding guarantee that it will be parked ...             The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. Robert Coover Plume, 1971 Book review Classic novel. If you grew up pre-video game revolution, enjoy baseball, keeping statistics, and games that employ dice, then you'll love this one. What distinguishes this book is that it evolves from a superficial layer of humor and athletics into a ...             A Child Again (Coover, Robert) Robert Coover McSweeney's, 2005 Good from beginning to end This collection of short stories by Robert Coover is nothing short of genius. First of all, let me say that I don't usually read short story collections beginning to end. This collection, however, I read cover to cover. It consumed me. The power of Coover's prose cuts ...             Briar Rose (Coover, Robert) Robert Coover Grove Press, 1997 An Existential Sleeping Beauty While reading Coover's book, you might find yourself confused. This is only appropriate, as Coover wrote an existential masterpiece. The prince's efforts to penetrate the briar hedge lead him nowhere. Beauty dreams of a series of princes waking her, each worse than ...             A Political Fable Robert Coover The Viking Press, 1980 "Cat in the Hat for President" This was originally published in the NEW AMERICAN REVIEW in 1968 as a long story entitled, "The Cat in the Hat for President." That was the year that Richard Nixon was first elected president and, according to a grand jury, the police rioted at the Democratic National ...             Ghost Town Robert Coover Grove Press, 2000 Amazing genreless genre fiction Those who come to Coover from his earlier works are well-prepared for this remarkable synthesis of excellent language, excellent description, excellent mood. Those new to Coover will delight in their discovery. Ghost Town is somehow less earnest, more effortless, than ...             The Origin of the Brunists (Coover, Robert) Robert Coover Grove Press, 2000 Brilliant Having read Coover's later books, I was rather skeptical if his earlier ones would be as good - and was pleasantly surprised. In fact, I would rate Coover's first novel as his best work: taut, earthy and powerful, it chronicles the rise and fall of a cult group called ...             Conjunctions: 42, Cinema Lingua (Conjunctions) Robert Coover, Peter Gizzi, ... Bard College, 2004 Now that the art of motion pictures has matured into its second century, Conjunctions has commissioned a diverse group of writers to respond--in poetry, fiction, and multi-genre works--to the countless cultural, historical, psychological, and theatrical aspects of the seductive flickering medium we watch in the dark. Cinema Lingua pays creative ...             Pinocchio in Venice (Coover, Robert) Robert Coover Grove Press, 1997 In life there are no happily ever afters "So Pinocchio gets his wish and becomes a real boy. And he lives happily ever after." If only life were like a fairy tale. We would all be loved and protected by our mothers and fathers forever and none of us would ever grow old or suffer the infirmities of aging. ...             Spanking the Maid (Coover, Robert) Robert Coover Grove Press, 1997 A comic-erotic send-up of Nouvelle Vague fiction This elegant, concisely written masturbatory farce, in which similar scenes of a maid's transgression and a master's punishment are played out over and over again, conflates the delicious repetitive nature of erotic fantasy with a send-up of "Last Year at ...          products you might be interested in search for books association, centerfolds, conjunctions, pricksongs, stepmother, universal      toavi.com    web randomly chosen book: White Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics, and the Shaping of Postwar Politics