Bibliograph

Ghost town, a novel, Robert Coover

Type

Label

Ghost town, a novel, Robert Coover

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Ghost town

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Robert Coover

Sub title

a novel

Summary

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 rather, it reaches him - and he becomes part of its gunfights, saloon brawls, bawdy houses, train robberies, and, of course, the choice between the saloon chanteuse or the sweet-faced schoolmistress whom he loves. Throughout, Robert Coover reanimates the Western epics of Zane Grey and Louis L'Amour, infusing them with the Beckettian echoes, unique comic energy, and exuberant prose that have made him one of the most influential figures in contemporary American literature. It is, as The Washington Post Book World put it, "a fast-forward, ribald vision of the American West, a free-for-all that slides from surreal to ridiculous like a circus-goer's grin through a funhouse mirror... a heady frisson, a salon entertainment, one helluva ride."

Target audience

adult

Classification