Скачать книгу (размер 620Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: A satirical fable with a rootless and helpless accountant as the protagonist. Alone in his apartment, he spends all his nights and weekends playing an intricate baseball game of his own invention. The author has won the William Faulkner …
Скачать книгу (размер 1130Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: Originally published in 1969 and now back in print after over a decade, Robert Coover s first novel instantly established his mastery. A coal-mine explosion in a small mid-American town claims ninety-seven lives. The only survivor, a lapsed Catholic …
Скачать книгу (размер 516Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: Pricksongs &, Descants, originally published in 1969, is a virtuoso performance that established its author — already a William Faulkner Award winner for his first novel — as a writer of enduring power and unquestionable brilliance, a promise he …
Скачать книгу (размер 770Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: Internationally renowned author Robert Coover returns with a major new novel set in Venice and featuring one of its most famous citizens, Pinocchio. The result is a brilliant philosophical discourse on what it means to be human, a hilarious, …
Скачать книгу (размер 280Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: This Depression Era tale tells of the rise and fall of the Chicago Bear that could not stay onside — Gloomy Gus, alias Iron Butt, i.e., Dick to his friends from Whittier, CA. Coover takes apart myth making with …
Скачать книгу (размер 2288Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: West Condon, small-town USA, five years later: the Brunists are back, loonies and «cretins» aplenty in tow, wanting it all — sainthood and salvation, vanity and vacuity, God’s fury and a good laugh — for the end is at …
Скачать книгу (размер 403Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: Robert Coover takes familiar Western tropes and rejuvenates them with his standard energy and prose. A lonesome stranger drifts into a long deserted town where the inhabitants re-enact their legendary pasts.
Скачать книгу (размер 1569Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: 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 …
Скачать книгу (размер 298Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: These two novellas by the groundbreaking, fearless, and immeasurably influential Robert Coover are dirty, funny and brilliant. In Briar Rose a sleeping beauty is trapped in an enchantment for a hundred years, dreaming of stories in which someone like …
Скачать книгу (размер 387Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: From 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, and Bogart all flit across Robert Coover s riotously funny screen, doing things …