Robert Coover




Robert Coover

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Born Robert Lowell Coover in Charles City, Iowa, Coover moved with his family early in his life to Herrin, Illinois, where his father was the managing editor for the Herrin Daily Journal. Emulating his father, Coover edited and wrote for various school newspapers under the nom-de-plume “Scoop.” He was also his high-school class president, a school band member, and an enthusiastic supporter of the Cincinnati Reds. In 1949 Coover enrolled in Southern Illinois University, and, after transferring to Indiana University in 1951, earned his bachelor's degree in 1953 with a major in Slavonic languages. While in college, he continued editing student papers, as well as working part-time for his father's newspaper. The day he graduated, Coover rec...more




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avg rating: 3.79 | 1,312 ratings | 156 reviews | 45 distinct works | 4 fans
Pricksongs & Descants: Fiction... Pricksongs & Descants: Fictions
by Robert Coover
avg rating 3.85 — 236 ratings — published 1970
12 editions
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The Universal Baseball Associa... The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
by Robert Coover
avg rating 3.96 — 229 ratings — published 1970
8 editions
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The Public Burning The Public Burning
by Robert Coover
avg rating 4.13 — 107 ratings — published 1977
6 editions
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Briar Rose Briar Rose
by Robert Coover
avg rating 3.52 — 110 ratings — published 1997
2 editions
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Spanking the Maid Spanking the Maid
by Robert Coover
avg rating 3.49 — 75 ratings — published 1982
4 editions
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The Origin of the Brunists: A... The Origin of the Brunists: A Novel
by Robert Coover
avg rating 4.03 — 59 ratings — published 1966
5 editions
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Gerald's Party Gerald's Party
by Robert Coover
avg rating 3.65 — 60 ratings — published 1986
8 editions
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Stepmother Stepmother
by Robert Coover
avg rating 3.75 — 51 ratings — published 2004
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Pinocchio in Venice Pinocchio in Venice
by Robert Coover
avg rating 3.45 — 55 ratings — published 1991
6 editions
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A Child Again A Child Again
by Robert Coover
avg rating 3.96 — 48 ratings — published 2005
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"Bottom half of the seventh, Brock's boy had made it through another inning unscratched, one! two! three! Twenty-one down and just six outs to go! and Henry's heart was racing, he was sweating with relief and tension all at once, unable to sit, unable to think, in there, with them! Oh yes, boys, it was on! "
Robert Coover (The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.)
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"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)
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