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9781590202944 | 1 edition (Overlook Pr, March 4, 2010), cover price $24.95
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9781590206805 | Reprint edition (Overlook Pr, November 1, 2011), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: With impeccable skill, Robert Coover, one of America's pioneering postmodernists, has turned the classic detective story inside-out.
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9780811860918 | Chronicle Books Llc, October 4, 2008, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Following the remarkable success of last year's limited deluxe edition, we're pleased to present The Complete Centerfolds in a new compact package.
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9780976631163 | Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts, February 28, 2007, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The action of Toby Olson’s PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novel Seaview sweeps eastward, following three men and two women across a wasted American continent to an apocalyptic confrontation on Cape Cod.
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9781932416220 | Har/crds edition (McSweeneys Books, October 12, 2005), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A new collection of short stories by the celebrated author revists the shared cultural heritage of fairy tales, myths, and childhood stories to explore the origins of fear, hope, and wonder in both children and adults.
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9781932416091 | McSweeneys Books, June 1, 2004, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Robert Coover, a father of modern American experimental fiction, returns with "Stepmother," a masterful re-imagining of the fairy-tale tradition.
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9780802117243 | 1 edition (Grove Pr, October 1, 2002), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: In the heart of Cinecity, Lucky Pierre, part clown, part porn star who is literally defined by his films, takes on a wide range of sexual roles at the behest of his nine muse-directors.
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9780802140418, titled "The Adventures of Lucky Pierre: Directors' Cut" | Grove Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A virtuosic performance, The Adventures of Lucky Pierre is a masterpiece.
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Product Description: 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...read more
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9781886224506 | Burning Deck Books, April 1, 2002, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Fiction.
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9781886224520 | Burning Deck Books, April 1, 2002, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Fiction.
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Product Description: 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...read more
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9781886224513 | Burning Deck Books, April 1, 2002, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Fiction.
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9781891024306 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, November 1, 2001, cover price $425.00 | About this edition: This special limited edition of A Convergence of Birds follows the successful publication of the trade edition of this wonderful anthology of new fiction and poetry inspired by the art of Joseph Cornell.
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9780802137432 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, November 1, 2000), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: 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.
9780393306002 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1989, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: 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
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Presents a collection of short stories based on traditional fairy tales that expose the futility of idealism.
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9780802136671 | Grove Pr, February 1, 2000, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of short stories based on traditional fairy tales that expose the futility of idealism.
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9780805058840 | Henry Holt & Co, September 1, 1998, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A forlorn cowboy is forced to serve as both lawman and outlaw to a desert ghost town
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9780802136664 | Grove Pr, February 1, 2000, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A Western town takes on a life of its own when a stranger rides in and is drawn into a series of brawls, gunfights, and train robberies while becoming entangled with a saloon singer and a schoolmistress, with whom he falls in love.
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9780805061697 | Owl Books, June 1, 1999, cover price $12.95
9780452263604 | Reissue edition (New Amer Library, May 1, 1988), cover price $9.95
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9780802135278 | Grove Pr, June 1, 1998, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Amazon.
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9780394525617 | Grove Pr, May 1, 1982, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Portrays the erotic relationship of a man and his maid, whom he repeatedly and ritualistically disciplines for failing to perform her cleaning duties perfectly
9780897230230 | Bruccoli-Clark Layman, June 1, 1981, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: "Though Coover's message is bleak, his delivery is wonderfully comic" (Bharati Mukherjee, "The Globe & Mail" (Toronto)) in this spare, tantalizing, and perfect book, named by Daphne Merkin in "The New Yorker" as one of her "favorite" S/M books.
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9780802135407 | Grove Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Portrays the erotic relationship of a man and his maid, whom he repeatedly and ritualistically disciplines for failing to perform her cleaning duties perfectly
9780394179711 | Grove Pr, March 1, 1982, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Portrays the erotic relationship of a man and his maid, whom he repeatedly and ritualistically disciplines for failing to perform her cleaning duties perfectly
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A recreation of the tale of 'Sleeping Beauty' tells of a prince tangled in the briars, a sleeping princess who dreams of a succession of kissing princes, and a grizzled fairy who inhabits the princess' dreams, inflaming her desires
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9780802115911 | Grove Pr, January 1, 1997, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A recreation of the tale of 'Sleeping Beauty' tells of a prince tangled in the briars, a sleeping princess who dreams of a succession of kissing princes, and a grizzled fairy who inhabits the princess' dreams, inflaming her desires
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9780802135414 | Grove Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A recreation of the tale of 'Sleeping Beauty' tells of a prince tangled in the briars, a sleeping princess who dreams of a succession of kissing princes, and a grizzled fairy who inhabits the princess' dreams, inflaming her desires
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9780802135285 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, October 1, 1997), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Probes the personalities assembled at a party when the murder of a guest named Ros transforms an ordinary evening
9780452258785 | New Amer Library, January 1, 1987, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Robert Coover's wicked and surreally comic novel takes place at a chilling, ribald, and absolutely fascinating party.
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9780684818412, titled "John's Wife: A Novel" | Simon & Schuster, April 1, 1996, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: 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
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9780684830438, titled "John's Wife: A Novel" | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, April 18, 1997), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: 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
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9780671644710 | Simon & Schuster, January 1, 1991, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A very old professor returns to Venice to finish work on his final book, but as he searches for the proper ending, he slowly begins to turn back into wood
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9780802134851 | Grove Pr, February 1, 1997, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: A very old professor returns to Venice to finish work on his final book, but as he searches for the proper ending, he slowly begins to turn back into wood
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9780671617967 | Linden Pub, January 1, 1987, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In this new collection of interlocking short fictions the author of 'Gerald's Party' turns on their heads the assumptions and conventions of the silver screen
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9781564781604 | Reprint edition (Dalkey Archive Pr, January 1, 1997), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: From Hollywood B-movies to Hollywood classics, A Night at the Movies invents what might have happened in these Saturday afternoon matinees.
9781564780164 | Reprint edition (Dalkey Archive Pr, December 1, 1992), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: From Hollywood B-movies to Hollywood classics, A Night at the Movies invents what might have happened in these Saturday afternoon matinees.
9780020191209, titled "A Night at the Movies: Or, You Must Remember This" | Reprint edition (Collier Books, April 1, 1988), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: In this new collection of interlocking short fiction the author of 'Gerald's Party' turns on their heads the assumptions and conventions of the silver screen
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9780671638139 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1987, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: 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
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9780020427810 | Collier Books, March 1, 1989, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: 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
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9780809541072 | Reprint edition (Borgo Pr, October 1, 1988), cover price $27.00
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9781590203118, titled "The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.: J. Henry Waugh, Prop." | Reprint edition (Overlook Pr, November 1, 2011), cover price $14.00
9780452260306, titled "The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.: J. Henry Waugh, Prop." | Reprint edition (Plume, September 1, 1987), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A satirical fable with a rootless and helpless accountant as the protagonist.
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Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781556440083 | Amer Audio Prose Library Inc, June 1, 1987, cover price $13.95
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