Robert Coover writes experimental American fiction that dismantles familiar stories, political myths and narrative conventions through parody, repetition and unstable points of view. The Public Burning reimagines the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg through a grotesque version of American public spectacle, with Richard Nixon among its central voices. The Universal Baseball Association creates an accountant whose private dice-based baseball league begins to overwhelm ordinary life, while Pricksongs & Descants retells fairy tales and myths in deliberately disruptive forms. Later books continue his interest in cinema, sexuality, games and stories that seem aware of themselves as stories. Coover's prose can be funny, dense and formally demanding, with plot repeatedly interrupted by alternative possibilities. His work fits postmodern fiction, metafiction and experimental American literature, alongside Donald Barthelme and John Barth. Read more Less
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