The Origin of the Brunists
Title | The Origin of the Brunists PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Coover |
Publisher | Grove Press |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780802137432 |
Originally published in 1969, Robert Coover's first novel instantly established his mastery. A coal-mine explosion in a small mid-American town claims ninety-seven lives. The only survivor, a peculiar man subject to religious visions, is adopted as a prophet and quickly gains a following. Rapidly disseminated through the magic of media exposure, the cult spreads across America, and as its members gather on the Mount of Redemption to await the apocalypse, Robert Coover lays bare the madness of religious frenzy and the sometimes greater madness of normal citizens. The Origin of the Brunists is vintage Coover -- comic, fearless, incisive, and brilliantly executed.
The Origin of the Brunists
Title | The Origin of the Brunists PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Coover |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Cults |
ISBN | 9781941531495 |
West Condon, a quiet mining town. But when the Deepwater Number 9 mine explodes, an apocalyptic cult springs up around the sole survivor, Giovanni Bruno. When the town's newspaper editor seeks to debunk the Brunist cult, the story goes national and the town is flooded with new believers. As tensions mount, the town erupts into a swell of violence.
The Public Burning
Title | The Public Burning PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Coover |
Publisher | Grove Press |
Pages | 564 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780802135278 |
Vice-President Richard Nixon - the voraciously ambitious bad boy of the Eisenhower regime - is the dominant narrator in an enormous cast that includes Betty Crocker, Joe McCarthy, the Marx Brothers, Walter Winchell, Uncle Sam, his adversary The Phantom, and Time magazine incarnated as the National Poet Laureate. All of these and thousands more converge in Times Square for the carnivalesque auto-da-fe at which the Rosenbergs are put to death.
Understanding Robert Coover
Title | Understanding Robert Coover PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Evenson |
Publisher | Univ of South Carolina Press |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781570034824 |
This text takes on the work of Robert Coover, a major figure of postmodern metafiction. In an analysis of Coover's short stories and novels, it demonstrates how Coover writes in several different modes that cross over into one another.
Huck Out West: A Novel
Title | Huck Out West: A Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Coover |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2017-01-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 039360845X |
"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 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 civilization than escape it, leaving Huck “dreadful lonely” in a country of bandits, war parties, and gold. In the course of his ventures, Huck reunites with old friends, facing hard truths and even harder choices.
Ghost Town
Title | Ghost Town PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Coover |
Publisher | Grove Press |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780802136664 |
A parody of the western novel featuring a hero who drifts into town to become both sheriff and outlaw. All the elements of the genre are present, from train robbery and runaway stagecoach, to cattle stampede. By the author of The Public Burning.
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop
Title | The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Coover |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 1992-01 |
Genre | Accountants |
ISBN | 9780749398200 |