Going for a Beer, Robert Coover
Going for a Beer, Robert Coover
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Going for a Beer
Selected Short Fictions

Author: Robert Coover, T.C. Boyle

Narrator: Charlie Thurston

Unabridged: 13 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/06/2018

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories

Synopsis

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 and even perversely, to remain his own man while offering his generous vision and versions of America."

Coover finds inspiration in everything from painting, cinema, theater, and dance to slapstick, magic acts, puzzles, and riddles. His 1969 story, "The Babysitter," has alone inspired generations of innovative young writers. Here, in this selection of thirty of his best stories, you will find an invisible man tragically obsessed by an invisible woman; a cartoon man in a cartoon car who runs over a real man who is arrested by a real policeman with cartoon eyes; a stick man who reinvents the universe.

About Robert Coover

Robert Coover is the author, most recently, of Huck Out West, among many other works including The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.; The Public Burning; and Ghost Town. He is a pioneer in the field of electronic writing and ran the International Writers Project for endangered writers at Brown University. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Glenn on April 10, 2021

If there ever was a short-short story portraying life as a cycle of mindless activities, this is it. An alternate title: Kill the Depth. Life devoid of tenderness and warmth, not to mention love and compassion; life devoid of literature and the arts; life devoid of spiritual transformation. Life as......more

Goodreads review by Lit Bug on October 08, 2013

New Review Lit Bug finds herself sitting on the chair with GR at the same time she was thinking of logging in. In fact, she was done with it. Perhaps she would take a second look, maybe a third too. There is a review sitting not far from her, from someone she came across only recently, which is not e......more

Goodreads review by Brian on October 11, 2013

He finds himself sitting in the neighborhood library reading a Coover novel at about the same time that he began to think about going there to look for one. In fact, he has just finished The Public Burning. Perhaps he’ll read a second one, he thinks, a Coover light, as he finishes Briar Rose. There......more

Goodreads review by Dave on September 19, 2017

[URL not allowed] is the link, thanks to Melki, to a short experimental and funny and insightful and even touching story about a guy who went out for a beer and another and then his life flashed before him, not his past but his future, things tumbling over themselves to get to......more

Goodreads review by Nandakishore on April 28, 2015

I had promised myself that I would not review any more books on Goodreads. But since this story is available for free on the internet, "The corporate bookselling entity that shall not be named" will not be able to use my review anyway, in their nefarious money-making schemes. So here is my review, f......more

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