From Hollywood B-movies to Hollywood classics, A Night at the Movies invents what "might have happened" in these Saturday afternoon matinees. Mad scientists, vampires, cowboys, dance-men, Chaplin, an
The Brunist Day of Wrath, Robert Coover's long-awaited, massive sequel to his award-winning debut, is a committed and committing, awe-inspiring, humbling look at fundamentalisms of all sorts in a worl
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 debu
West Condon, small-town USA, five years later: the Brunists are back, loonies and cretins” aplenty in tow, wanting it allsainthood and salvation, vanity and vacuity, God’s fury
"Robert Coover remains our foremost verbal wizard, our laughter in the dark." —T.C. BoyleFifty years after the original release of Coover's satire, this rollicking fable of the grotesque, unhinged Cat
His name is J. Henry Waugh. He eats delicatessen, drinks in a neighborhood bar, picks up B-girls, and likes country music. But he has one strange obsession. He has devised a baseball game whose eve
Robert Coover's many acclaimed works of fiction have established him as a powerhouse among America's postmodernist writers. With Briar Rose, he casts his own unmistakable style on an ageless tale. A
A nameless rider plods through the desert toward a dusty Western town shimmering on the horizon. In his latest novel, Robert Coover has taken the familiar form of the Western and turned it inside out
In the heart of Cinecity, the frozen meta-city where Lucky Pierre plies his trade, Lucky Pierre, a part clown, part porn star who is literally defined by his films, takes on a wide range of sexual rol
This novel tells the story of a master, his maid, and the irresistible ritual that binds them.Each morning the maid arrives in the master's bedroom with her cleaning paraphernalia, hoping to make thi
A very old professor returns to Venice to finish work on his final book, but as he searches for the proper ending, he slowly begins to turn back into wood