Ghost Town

by Robert Coover

Paperback, 2000

Library's rating

½

Status

Available

Call number

0.coover

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Publication

Grove Press (2000), Edition: 1st Grove Press Ed, Paperback, 160 pages

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LibraryThing member giovannigf
A meta Western that includes every trope and cliche you can think of. Coover manages to transcend postmodernist smugness and delivers an often-funny, compellingly-readable novel with echoes of William S Burroughs and Samuel Beckett. Really terrific.
LibraryThing member billycongo
This book is filled with playful grotesquerie that hits a good balance in terms of the amount of content. The length of the book is so crucial, because there is a certain amount of that stuff that you want, and not more. This is my favorite Coover, though there are some of his books that I won't
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read. He seems to be shadowing me all of my life, whether I read the books or not.
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Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1998

Physical description

147 p.; 21 cm

ISBN

0802136664 / 9780802136664
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