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Coover, Robert

Overview
Works: 217 works in 575 publications in 20 languages and 19,622 library holdings
Genres: Fantasy fiction  Love stories  Biographical fiction  Humorous fiction  Erotic fiction  Historical fiction  Legal stories  Baseball stories  Domestic fiction  Mystery fiction 
Roles: Dedicatee, Bibliographic antecedent, Other, Interviewee, Narrator
Classifications: ps3553.o633, 813.54
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28 editions published between and 2002 in English and German and held by 1,342 libraries worldwide
"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, the novel reimagines the three fateful days in 1953 that culminated with the execution of alleged atomic spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. 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. And not a person present escapes implication in Cold War America's ruthless "public burning.""--BOOK JACKET.
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11 editions published between and 1997 in English and held by 1,023 libraries worldwide
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15 editions published between and 2001 in 4 languages and held by 980 libraries worldwide
A small town in the Midwest is enthralled by its first lady. She is the wife of a wealthy builder and everyone has an opinion on her, though few have actually met her. A look at fame and fortune in a small pond by the author of Pinocchio in Venice.
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31 editions published between and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 975 libraries worldwide
A middle-aged accountant invents a dice-controlled baseball world.
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27 editions published between and 1997 in 4 languages and held by 936 libraries worldwide
"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, one of several the evening produces, Gerald's party goes on - a chatter of voices, names, faces, overheard gags, rounds of storytelling, and a mounting curve of desire. What Coover has in store for his guests - besides an evening gone mad - is part murder mystery, part British parlor drama, part sly and dazzling meditation of time, theater, and love."--BOOK JACKET.
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17 editions published between and 2005 in English and held by 901 libraries worldwide
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11 editions published between and 2002 in 3 languages and held by 837 libraries worldwide
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.
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23 editions published between and 2000 in 3 languages and held by 816 libraries worldwide
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10 editions published between and 1998 in 3 languages and held by 744 libraries worldwide
An allegorical retelling of Sleeping Beauty. It features a princess who dreams of a succession of kissing princes, and a fairy who inhabits her dreams, regaling her with legends of other sleeping beauties. A look at the power of romantic desire.
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28 editions published between and 2000 in 3 languages and held by 697 libraries worldwide
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17 editions published between and 1991 in English and Polish and held by 636 libraries worldwide
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8 editions published between and 2011 in English and French and held by 595 libraries worldwide
A mysterious young widow hires Philip M. Noir to find her husband's killer--if he was killed. She suddenly is killed and her body disappears. At once wry, absurd, and desolate--most people will think what's happening is pretty funny.
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5 editions published in in English and held by 531 libraries worldwide
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21 editions published between and 2007 in 7 languages and held by 488 libraries worldwide
Tells the story of a master, his maid, and the irresistible ritual that binds them.
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4 editions published between and 2004 in English and held by 484 libraries worldwide
"Cinecity is the frozen capital of an unnamed utopia - or is it dystopia? - where Lucky Pierre plies his trade, and it is the only world he knows. Part porn star, part clown, part everyman, Lucky has no life outside the films he is in, films created by nine women filmmakers, each with her own creative and sexual proclivities. Through the lenses of his nine muse-directors, Lucky - a.k.a. Wee Willie, Peter Prick, Crazy Leg, Badboy, Pete the Beast - becomes a naive castaway, a submissive slave, a child star in a barnyard frolic, a love-struck suburban hubby, a hologram, a sexual outlaw, a monk, a monkey, a mountain-climber, a dirty cartoon, a sex-pilgrim in virtual reality, and much much more. Coover's irrepressible imagination - or that of his nine filmmakers - is boundless . . . and merciless." "But what is destiny in a world where there is no line between reality and the increasingly outrageous fantasy of the director and the camera? Recalling the protagonist of The Truman Show if Georges Bataille had written it, Lucky Pierre is both louche and innocent, a caricature of pornographic conventions and a stand-in for all human efforts to sort out vanity, performance, emotion, and motive from the ecstasy that reveals us to ourselves."--BOOK JACKET.
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6 editions published in in English and held by 344 libraries worldwide
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4 editions published in in English and held by 312 libraries worldwide
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5 editions published between and 1980 in English and held by 201 libraries worldwide
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4 editions published in in English and held by 176 libraries worldwide
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6 editions published between and 1987 in English and French and held by 173 libraries worldwide
 
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Audience level: 0.59 (from 0.49 for John's wif ... to 0.77 for Stepmother ...)
The public burning
Alternative Names
Coover, Robert Lowell
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