by RobertCoover (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 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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: 1st Pbk. Ed
Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: 25 Aug 2000
ISBN 10: 0802135285
ISBN 13: 9780802135285