Robert Coover and the Generosity of the Page Classics and Modernism lyrical monologue is at once

lyrical monologue is at once playful and disturbing

Every moment in the nightmarish and hilarious account that follows lives up to the absurdity of this accusation

it tells the story of three children sharing a gruesome secret who are brought together again by chance and illness — two patients and one nurse

Octave Mirbeau

in fifteen essays—some previously published

Robert Coover and the Generosity of the Page Classics and Modernism lyrical monologue is at onceWritten in the second person, it offers a self reflexive investigation into the ways in which Coover's stories often challenge the reader to resist the conventions of sense making and even literary criticism. Robert Coover and the Generosity of the Page is an unconventional study of Robert Coover's work from his early masterpiece The Origin of the Brunists (1966) to the recent Noir (2010). Written in the second person, it offers a self reflexive