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  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141193014
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

Gerald's Party




Coover's brilliantly entertaining and startlingly postmodern crime novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics

Ros is dead. A bad actress but a tremendous lover, when she was alive her thighs pillowed cast members, crew, friends and acquaintances. Now Gerald's party continues around her murdered corpse (it is, after all, just the first of the night), as the guests indulge in drinking, flirting and jealousies, and the police make their brutal investigations.

An evening of cocktails, sex and violence, Robert Coover's novel is a murder mystery as rousing and disorienting as the best drunken party, a vaudevillian masterpiece.

  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141193014
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

About the author

Robert Coover

Robert Coover is widely regarded as one of America's most influential living writers, author of some fifteen groundbreaking books of fiction, including Pricksongs & Descants, The Public Burning, and most recently Ghost Town. Coover has for the past decade been teaching experimental courses in hypertext and multimedia narrative at Brown University. His 1992 essay on hypertext in the New York Times Book Review, 'The End of Books,' galvanized electronic literature fans around the world.

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Praise for Gerald's Party

'A hallucinogenic, phantasmagoric nightmare of mayhem and ecstasty'

The New York Times