Coover

[David Morris]

Thanks Richard,
I'm not really looking for "straightforward."  I like complexity (like GR), 
but only if it is in the service of more than complexity.  I also like 
poetry, and emotion, and intelligence, and...  But I take it you highly 
recommend all of the below, and I thank you for the thoughts.

David Morris

>From: "Richard Romeo" <richardromeo at hotmail.com>
>John's Wife is a sleeper tour-de-force and of course The Public 
>Burning--large complex workings with a large cast of characters. His work 
>is highly structured, but reads just the opposite. I think Pynchon's work 
>is similar in that regard.
>
>Ghost Town has many colorful vignettes--think of the cutchfield/Whappo 
>episode but a whole lot funnier--there's also a Judge Holden-like character 
>in the book that pokes fun or at least reminds me how lugubrious much of 
>Cormac McCarthy can be.
>
>I'd start with Coover's first novel, The Origin of the Brunists, which is, 
>for the most part, pretty straight-forward.


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