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From a master of contemporary fiction, here is an incandescent novel about one small town in America and the woman who casts her spell on all who live there. Kaleidoscopic, provocative, darkly funny, JOHN' WIFE confirms Edmund White's observation in the New York Times Book Review that "as his dazzling career continues to demonstrate, Mr. Coover is a one-man Big Bang of exploding creative force."

"Our most abrasive and challenging postmodernist writes at pretty nearly peak level in this mock-epic chronicle of the vagaries of sex, greed, and death in an unnamed midwestern town whose inhabitants are all linked together by their admiration for--or friendship or obsession with--the opaque title character....A pitch-perfect, pitch-black comedy, and one of Coover's most elegant and entertaining books yet."

Kirkus, 02/01/1996

"...remarkable, disturbing....If it is possible anywhere to grieve with joy, then Mr. Coover's cheerfully psychotic world is the place for it."

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times, 04/01/1996

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