Book description
Ros is dead. A bad actress but a tremendous lover, when she was alive
her thighs pillowed cast members, crew, friends and acquaintances. Now
Gerald's party continues around her murdered corpse (it is, after all,
just the first of the night), as the guests indulge in drinking,
flirting and jealousies, and the police make their brutal investigations.
An evening of cocktails, sex and violence, Robert Coover's novel is
a murder mystery as rousing and disorienting as the best drunken
party, a vaudevillian masterpiece.
Robert Coover is the author of twenty-some books of fiction and
plays, his most recent being
Noir
and
A Child Again
. He has been nominated for the National Book Award and awarded numerous
prizes and fellowships, including the William Faulkner Award, the Rea
Lifetime Achievement Award for the Short Story, and a Lannan Foundation
Literary Fellowship. His plays have been produced in New York, Los
Angeles, Paris, London, and elsewhere. At Brown University, he teaches
"Cave Writing" (a writing workshop in immersive virtual
reality), and other experimental electronic writing and mixed media
workshops, and directs the International Writers Project, a
freedom-to-write program.
