Gerald's party
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Robert Coover.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Grove Press; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York; [Emeryville, CA]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Dinners and dining -- Fiction; Entertaining -- Fiction
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, part sly and dazzling meditation of time, theater, and love.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Linden Press, 1986.