Robert Coover
Author profile
born
in Charles City, Iowa, The United States
February 04, 1932
gender
male
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The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
— published 1969 — 11 editions |
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Pricksongs and Descants
— published 1969 — 18 editions |
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The Public Burning
by Robert Coover, William H. Gass — published 1977 — 8 editions |
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Briar Rose
— published 1996 — 4 editions |
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Spanking the Maid
— published 1981 — 7 editions |
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The Origin of the Brunists
— published 1966 — 7 editions |
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Noir: A Novel
— published 2010 — 10 editions |
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A Night at the Movies, Or, You Must Remember This: Fictions
— published 1987 — 9 editions |
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Gerald's Party
— published 1986 — 7 editions |
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Ghost Town
— published 1998 — 4 editions |
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“The superhero, his underwear bagging at the seat and knees, is just a country boy at heart, tutored to perceive all human action as good or bad, orderly or dynamic, and so doesn't know whether to shit or fly.”
― Robert Coover, A Night at the Movies, Or, You Must Remember This: Fictions
― Robert Coover, A Night at the Movies, Or, You Must Remember This: Fictions
“Black holes are the seductive dragons of the universe, outwardly quiescent yet violent at the heart, uncanny, hostile, primeval, emitting a negative radiance that draws all toward them, gobbling up all who come too close. Once having entered the tumultuous orbit of a black hole, nothing can break away from its passionate but fatal embrace. Though cons of teasing play may be granted the doomed, ultimately play turns to prey and all are sucked haplessly―brilliantly aglow, true, but oh so briefly so―into the fire-breathing maw of oblivion. Black holes, which have no memory, are said to contain the earliest memories of the universe, and the most recent, too, while at the same time obliterating all memory by obliterating all its embodiments. Such paradoxes characterize these strange galactic monsters, for whom creation is destruction, death life, chaos order. And darkness illumination: for, as dragons are also called worms, so black hole are known as wormholes, offering a mystical and intimate pathway to the farthest reaches of the cosmos, thus bring light as they consume it.”
― Robert Coover, A Child Again
― Robert Coover, A Child Again
“Oh, he shouldn't be surprised, he's a Marxist and has nothing but contempt for the bourgeois capitalist press, yet paradoxically he is also somehow an Americanist and a believer in Science and Freedom and History and Reason, and it dismays him to see cruelty politely concealed in data, madness taken for granted and even honored, truth buried away and rotting in all that ex cathedra trivia--my God! something terrible is about to happen, and they have time to editorialize on mustaches, advertise pink cigarettes for weddings, and report on a lost parakeet! Ah, sometimes he just wants to ram the goddamn thing with his head in an all-out frontal attack, wants to destroy all this so-called history so that history can start again.”
― Robert Coover, The Public Burning
― Robert Coover, The Public Burning
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