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Роберт Кувер - автор 15 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: Pricksongs and Descants, The Public Burning, Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds: Deluxe-Edition. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.
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 has fulfilled over a stellar career. It also began Coover's now-trademark riffs on fairy tales and bedtime stories. In these riotously word-drunk fict...
For quite some time after the 1977 publication of The Public Burning, it was almost impossible to find a copy. The book's own publisher seemed--no, was reluctant to admit it even existed. That's because this imaginative reconstruction of the 1953 execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, convicted for giving atom bomb secrets to the Soviets, was the first major work of modern fiction to f...
Mit dem ersten Playboy-Centerfold im Jahr 1953 — zufällig, oder auch nicht, war es der aufstrebende Weltstar Marilyn Monroe — hatte Hugh Hefner, Erfinder, Herausgeber und Verleger des Playboy, im "playmate of the month" einen Kultplatz für weibliche Aktphotographie geschaffen, um den sich in der Folge die schönsten Frauen der Welt reißen sollten und der dem Playboy als erotisches Magazin seine unv...
Winner of the William Faulkner Foundation Award and precursor to 2010's The Brunist Day of Wrath.
Briar Rose, a brilliant recreation of the timeless Sleeping Beauty story, tells of a prince trapped in the briars; a sleeping beauty who cannot awaken, dreaming of a succession of kissing princes; and the old spell-casting fairy who inhabits the princess's dreams, regaling her with legends of other sleeping beauties and trying to imagine the nature of human desire.
A mesmering, brilliantly conceived tour de force which begins as a fun party for friends but turns quickly to the bizarre as a beautiful guest is found dead.
In the real world nowadays, that is to say, in the world of video transmissions, cellular phones, fax machines, computer networks, and in particular out in the humming digitalized precincts of avant-garde computer hackers, cyberpunks and hyperspace freaks, you will often hear it said that the print medium is a doomed and outdated technology, a mere curiosity of bygone days destined soon to be cons...
