Robert Coover

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  • Bibliography:
    33 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1971
  • Latest Book:
    June 2023
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Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty

Briar Rose (Jan-1998)

Book List in Order: 33 titles

  • The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.

    J. Henry Waugh is an accountant, albeit an unhappy one. However, each night after he comes home from work, Henry immerses himself in a world of his choosing: a baseball league in which every action is ruled by the dice....

  • Origin of the Brunists

    The lone survivor of a catastrophic mine explosion announces that the end of the world is at hand and begins a new cult that, sweeping the mining towns, gathers believers in anticipation of the Coming of the End of the World...

  • Political Fable

  • The Convention

  • Gerald's Party

    Robert Coover's wicked and surreally comic novel takes place at a chilling, ribald, and absolutely fascinating party. Amid the drunken guests, a woman turns up murdered on the living room floor. Around the corpse, one of several the evening produces,...

  • Aesop's Forest and The Plot of the Mice

    Two short stories (nicely illustrated) published in a back-to-back format. 1986, trade paperback original edition, Capra Press, Santa Barbara, CA. Illustrations by Michael McCurdy. Presents: Aesop's Forest by Robert Coover / and The Plot of the Mice ...

  • A Night at the Movies Or, You Must Remember This

    Previews, coming attractions, horror, romance, mystery, even intermissions--you name the type of movie and there's a fiction within this collection to cover it--all written with the exuberance you've come to expect in Robert Coover's writing....

  • Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears?

    Interweaves the fate of a cast of passionate--and lunatic--idealists of the Depression Era Left, and the rise and fall of a poet, womanizer, actor, union sympathizer and All-American football star known as Gloomy Gus....

  • A Night at the Movies; or, You Must Remember This



  • Pricksongs & Descants

    Pricksongs & Descants, originally published in 1969, is a virtuoso performance that established its author - already a William Faulkner Award winner for his first novel - as a writer of enduring power and unquestionable brilliance, a promise he h...

  • Pinocchio in Venice

    Internationally renowned author Robert Coover returns with a major new novel set in Venice and featuring one of its most famous citizens, Pinocchio. The result is a brilliant philosophical discourse on what it means to be human; a hilarious, bawdy ad...

  • John's Wife

    A satirical fable of small-town America centers on a builder's wife and the erotic power she exerts over her neighbors, transforming before their eyes and changing forever their notions of right and wrong....

  • Briar Rose

    Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty

    Robert Coover's many acclaimed works of fiction have established him as a powerhouse among America's postmodernist writers. With Briar Rose, he casts his own unmistakable style on an ageless tale. A brilliant recreation of the timeless Sleeping Beaut...

  • Spanking the Maid

  • Public Burning

    A controversial best-seller in 1977, The Public Burning has since emerged as one of the most influential novels of our time. The first major work of contemporary fiction ever to use living historical figures as characters, the novel reimagines the th...

  • Ghost Town

    A nameless rider plods through the desert toward a dusty Western town shimmering on the horizon. In his latest novel, Robert Coover has taken the familiar form of the Western and turned it inside out. The lonesome stranger reaches the town - or rathe...

  • Grand Hotels of Joseph Cornell

    Fiction. Robert Coover takes us through the looking-glass of Joseph Cornell's boxes into a world of "Grand Hotels" we never dreamed of. Rooms are accessed via ferris wheel. They open onto crystal cages, night voyages, sand fountains. They lead us bac...

  • The Grand Hotels

  • Adventures of Lucky Pierre

    Lucky Pierre is the most famous man in Cinecity, where pornography is the basis of social norms and the mayoral motto is Â"Pro Bono Pubis.” He walks to work (the studio where his films are made) in the winter cold, icicles tipping his constantly ex...



  • Stepmother

    Robert Coover, father of modern American experimental fiction, returns with Stepmother, a masterful reimagining of the fairy-tale tradition. There is magic, there are princes, there are painful castrations. There is also beauty, and true love, of a s...

  • Child Again

    Casey returns to bat. The Pied Piper pipes again. Little Red Ridinghood isnot safe yet.
    Robert Coover returns with a new collection of short fiction, reexaminingour shared narrative heritage -- myths, fairytales, and favorite childhoodstories -...

  • Noir

    You are Philip M. Noir, Private Investigator. A mysterious young widow hires you to find her husband's killer...but has he really been killed? Then your client is killed and her body disappears...but was she really your client? Your search for clues ...

  • The Universal Baseball Association

    J. Henry Waugh immerses himself in his fantasy baseball league every night after work. As owner of every team in the league, Henry is flush with pride in a young rookie who is pitching a perfect game. When the pitcher completes the miracle game, Henr...

  • The Brunist Day of Wrath

    The sequel to Coover's award-winning The Origin of the Brunists, takes a look at religion, cults, myths, and how small towns relying on slowly dying businesses mesh together with an amazing cast of characters, varying points of view and the usage of ...

  • The Origin of Brunists

    Originally published in 1969 and now back in print after over a decade, Robert Coover's first novel instantly established his mastery. A coal-mine explosion in a small mid-American town claims ninety-seven lives. The only survivor, a lapsed Catholic ...

  • In Bed One Night, and Other Brief Encounters

    In Robert Coover's latest collection of short stories, we explore worlds where time is dangerously out of control. Worlds that unravel like films within films within films. Worlds obsessed with the temporary. Ultimately, we explore worlds that are...

  • Huck Out West

    At the end of Huckleberry Finn, on the eve of the Civil War, Huck and his pal Tom Sawyer "light out for the Territory" to avoid "sivilization." In Robert Coover's vision of their Western adventures, Huck and Tom start by joining the famous but short-...

  • Going for a Beer

    A collection of the best short fictions from the grandmaster of postmodernism. Robert Coover has been playing by his own rules for more than half a century, earning the 1987 Rea Award for the Short Story as “a writer who has managed, willfully a...

  • The Cat in the Hat for President

    "Robert Coover remains our foremost verbal wizard, our laughter in the dark." -- T.C. Boyle Fifty years after the original release of Coover's satire, this rollicking fable of the grotesque, unhinged Cat in the Hat (and the stuffed shirts who bet on...



  • Briar Rose & Spanking the Maid

  • Romance of the Thin Man and the Fat Lady

  • Open House

  • Coover Stories

    Radical and racy, Robert Coover’s Coover Stories is a new collection of incisive, inventive works from the postmodern master.When Robert Coover’s first collection Pricksongs & Descants came out in 1969, his short story “The Babysitter,” t...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Robert Coover has published 33 books.

Robert Coover does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Coover Stories, was published in June 2023.

The first book by Robert Coover, The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop., was published in May 1971.

No. Robert Coover does not write books in series.
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