Coover

[MalignD at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/27/2002 2:39:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
fqmorris at hotmail.com writes:


> <<I haven't read any Coover yet, so I searched a bit for descriptions of his 
> 
> work. >>

And:

<<There are those who find the works of William Gaddis, William Gass, John 
Barth, Thomas Pynchon, John Hawkes and others of this group of middle-aged 
Northern and Midwestern WASPs to be more fun to discuss as theory than to 
read, and there's no denying that Coover shares their bias for self-conscious 
technique over content and narrative.">>

Dismissing five writers in three sentences.  You want to trust someone like 
that, feel free.

> I'd say read The Public Burning.  It's a lot more fun to read than to 
> discuss.

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