Going for a beer : selected short fictions
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Boyle, T. Coraghessan, writer of introduction.
Published
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2018].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780393608465, 0393608468
Physical Desc
xiii, 416 pages ; 25 cm
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Cranston Central - Adult Fiction | FIC COO | On Shelf |
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Providence Public - Level G Fiction | Fic Coover | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2018].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9780393608465, 0393608468
Notes
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"Robert 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 vision and versions of America." Coover finds inspiration in everything from painting, cinema, theater, and dance to slapstick, magic acts, puzzles, and riddles. His 1969 story "The Babysitter" has alone inspired generations of innovative young writers. Here, in this selection of his best stories, spanning more than half a century, you will find an invisible man tragically obsessed by an invisible woman; a cartoon man in a cartoon car who runs over a real man who is arrested by a real policeman with cartoon eyes; a stick man who reinvents the universe. While invading the dreams and nightmares of others, long dead, disrupting them from within, Coover cuts to the core of how realism works. He uses metafiction as a means of "interrogating the fiction making process," at least insofar as that process, when unexamined, has a way of entrapping us in false and destructive stories, myths, and belief systems. These stories are riven with paradox, ambivalence, strangeness, unrealized ambitions and desires, uncertainty, complexity, always seeking the potential for insight, for comedy. Through their celebration of the improbable and unexpected, and their distinctive but complementary grammars of text and film, Coover's selected short fictions entertain by engaging with the tribal myths that surround us--religious, patriotic, literary, erotic, popular--often satirizing the mindsets that, out of some obscure primitive need, perpetuate them. The thirty stories in Going for a Beer confirm Coover's reputation as "one of America's greatest literary geniuses" (Alan Moore)." --,(Source of summary not specified)
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Coover, R., & Boyle, T. C. (2018). Going for a beer: selected short fictions (First edition.). W. W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Coover, Robert and T. Coraghessan, Boyle. 2018. Going for a Beer: Selected Short Fictions. W. W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Coover, Robert and T. Coraghessan, Boyle. Going for a Beer: Selected Short Fictions W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Coover, Robert,, and T. Coraghessan Boyle. Going for a Beer: Selected Short Fictions First edition., W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.
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