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    Ghost Town
    Ghost Town
    Ghost Town
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    Ghost Town

    By Robert Coover

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    A nameless rider plods through the desert toward a dusty Western town shimmering on the horizon. In his latest novel, Robert Coover has taken the familiar form of the Western and turned it inside out. The lonesome stranger reaches the town - or rather, it reaches him - and he becomes part of its gunfights, saloon brawls, bawdy houses, train robberies, and, of course, the choice between the saloon chanteuse or the sweet-faced schoolmistress whom he loves. Throughout, Robert Coover reanimates the Western epics of Zane Grey and Louis L'Amour, infusing them with the Beckettian echoes, unique comic energy, and exuberant prose that have made him one of the most influential figures in contemporary American literature. It is, as The Washington Post Book World put it, "a fast-forward, ribald vision of the American West, a free-for-all that slides from surreal to ridiculous like a circus-goer's grin through a funhouse mirror . . . a heady frisson, a salon entertainment, one helluva ride."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDzanc Books
    Release dateMay 27, 2014
    ISBN9781941088838
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    • 5/5
      A meta Western that includes every trope and cliche you can think of. Coover manages to transcend postmodernist smugness and delivers an often-funny, compellingly-readable novel with echoes of William S Burroughs and Samuel Beckett. Really terrific.
    • 4/5
      This book is filled with playful grotesquerie that hits a good balance in terms of the amount of content. The length of the book is so crucial, because there is a certain amount of that stuff that you want, and not more. This is my favorite Coover, though there are some of his books that I won't read. He seems to be shadowing me all of my life, whether I read the books or not.

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