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  • Published: 15 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141971223
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 112

Romance Of The Thin Man And The Fat Lady




Introducing the new Mini Modern Classics. The short story is we're going to change the way you read.

'Paul stepped off the curb and got hit by a truck. He didn't know what it was that hit him at first, but now, here on his back, under the truck, there could be no doubt.'

One of 50 original and exciting books of short stories, publishing in February to celebrate half a century of Penguin Modern Classics.

This book contains Romance of the Thin Man and the Fat Lady, The Babysitter, and A Pedestrian Accident.

  • Published: 15 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141971223
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 112

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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