Gerald's Party
by:
Robert Coover (author)
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...
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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, and part sly and dazzling meditation on time, theater, and love.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780802135285 (0802135285)
Publish date: September 25th 1997
Publisher: Grove Press
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
gosh it is hard to believe that postmodernism used to be where it was at. seems almost quaint to think about now.the writing here is dark and sardonic. some rare moments of realistic emotion occasionally intrude upon the constantly surreal tableau. i might have had a problem with what appears to be ...
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