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 ...
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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."
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Add this copy of Ghost Town to cart. $9.73, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Henry Holt & Company.
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I give up. I started reading Robert Coover?s Ghost Townand stopped after 50 pages. It?s a post-modern book with lots of dialect. It?s about a nameless sumbitch who rides or imagines he rides into a ghost town. It?s artful and packed full of surreal elements. I just wasn?t in the mood for this multi-layered demonstration of literary talent.
I did enjoy Coover?s Briar Rose a few years back. Westerns aren?t my thing at least this one wasn?t. Coover is innovative, but that?s not what I?m looking for in a story right now. Or else there?s something else that?s missing. I bet I could read Italo Calvino. Something like If on a Winter?s Night a Traveler again or something of his I ha-ven?t yet read. Calvino has more heart; there?s more to connect with rather than just to marvel at with him.
So at page 50 I decided to put it aside. I can read it some other time. Or not.
