Title: Gerald's party
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.
Subjects: Dinners and dining, Fiction, Entertaining, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, erotica, Fiction, erotica, general, Fiction, general, Fiction, crime