Title: Gerald's Party Author: Robert Coover ISBN: 9780802135285 Publisher: Grove Press Published: 1997 Binding: Paperback Language: English Edition: Reprint Number of Pages: 320 Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: Robert Coover's wicked and surreally comic novel takes place at a chilling, ribald, and absolutely fascinating party. Amid the drunken guests, a woman turns up murdered on the living room floor. Around the corpse, one of several the evening produces, Gerald's party goes on -- a chatter of voices, names, faces, overheard gags, rounds of storytelling, and a mounting curve of desire. What Coover has in store for his guests (besides an evening gone mad) is part murder mystery, part British parlor drama, and part sly and dazzling meditation on time, theater, and love.
