num_pages: 320
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.
language: English
title: Gerald's Party
titlecomplete: Gerald's Party (Coover, Robert)
genres: United States, Fiction, The United States Of America, 20th Century, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, American
ratings_count: 301
publisher: Grove Press