Gerald's Party
$38.24
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
4 July 2011
Summary
Coover’s brilliantly entertaining and startlingly postmodern crime novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics
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, after all, just the first of the night), as the guests indulge in drinking, flirting and jealousies, and the police make their brutal investigations.
An evening of cocktails, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141192987 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141192984 |
| Author: | Robert Coover, T.C. Boyle |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 4 July 2011 |
| Weight: | 236g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
‘A hallucinogenic, phantasmagoric nightmare of mayhem and ecstasty’
‘A hallucinogenic, phantasmagoric nightmare of mayhem and ecstasty’ * The New York Times *
Robert Coover
Robert Coover is the author of twenty-some books of fiction and plays, his most recent being Noir and A Child Again. He has been nominated for the National Book Award and awarded numerous prizes and fellowships, including the William Faulkner Award, the Rea Lifetime Achievement Award for the Short Story, and a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship. His plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, London, and elsewhere. At Brown University, he teaches “Cave Writing” (a writing workshop in immersive virtual reality), and other experimental electronic writing and mixed media workshops, and directs the International Writers Project, a freedom-to-write program.
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