"A mixtape of variations and a fugue on time from a postmodern master.… Familiar tales and conventional genres are made new, tinged with shuddering wonder and titillating humor." —Yu-Yun Hsieh, The New York Times Book ReviewRobert Coover has been playing by his own rules for more than half a century, earning the 1987 Rea Award for the Short Story as "a writer who has managed, willfully and even perversely, to remain his own man while offering his generous ...

"An audacious and revisionary sequel to Twain's masterpiece. It is both true to the spirit of Twain and quintessentially Cooveresque." —Times Literary SupplementAt the end of Huckleberry Finn, on the eve of the Civil War, Huck and Tom Sawyer decide to escape "sivilization" and "light out for the Territory." In Robert Coover's vision of their Western adventures, Tom decides he'd rather own civilization than escape it, leaving Huck "dreadful lonely"...

Considered one of the best baseball novels of all time, this black comedy about a discontented businessman's obsession with a fantasy baseball league of his own creation is "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" meets William Gaddis meets John Updike's Rabbit, Run.Somewhere in a "major-league" American city, there lives a man named J. Henry Waugh—no-account accountant, barfly, and country music fan. The most important part of Waugh's life, as far as he is conce...

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 her wakes up disappointed, or becomes a mother, or is stripped and defiled. And, as she dreams, outside, failed princes die and hang their remains on the thorns of a briar hedge. In Spanking the Maid a maid and her master are...

'She arrives at 7.40, ten minutes late...' She babysits for Mr and Mrs Tucker. She has left a boyfriend alone for the evening. From this seemingly simple start Robert Coover masterfully explores the subtle barrier between 'reality' and thought. As the babysitter triggers the men's sexual fantasies, their erotic imaginations twist into alternative narratives simultaneously experienced by the reader: she does or does not take a bath; she does or does not invite her boyfriend over; she does o...

En Huckleberry Finn s'ha fet gran: fa temps que va deixar enrere el país de la infantesa per aventurar-se als territoris sense llei del vell oest americà amb en Tom Sawyer. Aviat, però, els seus camins divergeixen, i mentre en Tom es casa i torna a l'est per fer fortuna, en Huck prossegueix la seva ruta pels marges de la civilització mentre la Guerra de Secessió fa estralls al seu voltant: doma cavalls salvatges, guia caravanes de fanàtics religiosos, fa amistat amb l'aborigen Eeteh…, i de...

A reissued classic; Robert Coover is one of America's best-known living authorsPerfect for the Trump EraNever before released in paperback--or with this, its original titleWith a new introduction by the author

'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.

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 par...

In his carnivalesque and riotously inventive Pricksongs & Descants Robert Coover remakes old stories: of Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, and Beauty (who married her Beast and spends a lifetime suffering his doggy stink). And he reshapes his own: a man makes repeating, re-imagined journeys in an office elevator (while his fellow riders taunt and tempt him), and in the seminal, fractal 'The Babysitter' every moment in a single night is played and replayed, every hope and threat ...

Huckleberry Finn è diventato grande; ha abbandonato da tempo la vita civile vissuta da ragazzo e insieme a Tom Sawyer si è avventurato nel Far West, dove le regole non esistono. Insieme, cavalcano sulle rotte del Pony Express, mentre attorno a loro divampa la Guerra di secessione. Ma ben presto Tom capisce di non voler fuggire dalla civiltà: sposa la sua antica fidanzata Becky Thatcher e torna a Est per inseguire potere e successo. Huck rimane solo: doma cavalli selvaggi, guida carovane di...

Phil M. Noir es el detective privado más desquiciado de New London. Con un abrigo ajado, mal afeitado y renqueante, recorre las calles más sórdidas de la ciudad tratando de elucidar los oscuros asuntos de sus clientes, como el de una viuda de riguroso luto piernas deslumbrantes cuyo marido ha sido asesinado en un ajuste de cuentas. De bar en bar y de informador en informador, Noir persigue esa confidencia que le acerque al asesino.Pero esta particularísima novela negra lo tiene tod...