Coover

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>>>I second David's recommendation of Coover's Gerald's Party--it's out of
>print so keep your eyes peeled for it in used book stores.  That's half
>the fun.  Reading it is the other half, but "fun"  may not be the right
>word now that I think about it. The entire novel revolves around the dead
>body of a woman smack in the middle of the floor at a suburban cocktail
>party--the nihilism and black humor recall Beckett at times but it's
>even more nostalgic than something like Krapp's Last Tape. Modern?  Pomo?
>Absurd?  Perhaps David's use of "weird" best sums it up. I suspect it's
>out of print because no one knew what the hell to make of it. (I'm working
>on it).

GERALD is a really important novel, I think. I would also recommend his first
novel, an amazing, if more realistic, effort entitled THE ORIGIN OF THE
BRUNISTS. Probably a lot of you know it already. I also admire SPANKING THE
MAID and his stories, PRICKSONGS AND DESCANTS. The latter is available
through Dalkey Archive, and it seems to me that GERALD is too.