Gerald's Party

Robert Coover's wicked and surreally comic novel takes place at a chilling, ribald, and absolutely fascinating party. Amid the drunken guests, a woman turns up murdered on the living room floor. Around the corpse, one of several the evening produces, Gerald's party goes on -- a chatter of voices, names, faces, overheard gags, rounds of storytelling, and a mounting curve of desire. What Coover has in store for his guests (besides an evening gone mad) is part murder mystery, part British parlor drama, and part sly and dazzling meditation on time, theater, and love.

Author: Robert Coover
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 09/25/1997
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.47w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9780802135285