The Brunist Day of Wrath (Signed First Edition)

Robert Coover

ISBN 10: 1938604385 / ISBN 13: 9781938604386

Published by Dzanc (Ann Arbor), 2014

About this Item

Ann Arbor, Dzanc, 2014. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. New/New. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page (his name only). Comes with an archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Smoke-free. Delicate, large book. Coover's tenth novel, it is a sequel to Coover's first novel, "The Origin of the Brunists," published by Putnam in 1966. "The Origin of the Brunists" tells the story of Giovanni Bruno, the lone survivor of a mine disaster that killed 97 of his co-workers, and the apocalyptic cult that forms around him. (The disaster in the novel is closely based on the 1951 coal mine explosion in West Frankfort, Illinois.) 1005 pages. A pristine unread copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Brunist Day of Wrath (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Dzanc (Ann Arbor)
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1938604385
• ISBN 13: 9781938604386
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

West Condon, small-town USA, five years later: the Brunists are back, loonies and "cretins" aplenty in tow, wanting it all―sainthood and salvation, vanity and vacuity, God's fury and a good laugh―for the end is at hand.

The Brunist Day of Wrath, the long-awaited sequel to the award-winning The Origin of the Brunists, is both a scathing indictment of fundamentalism and a careful examination of a world where religion competes with money, common sense, despair, and reason.

Robert Coover has published fourteen novels, three books of short fiction, and a collection of plays since The Origin of the Brunists received the William Faulkner Foundation First Novel Award in 1966. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and Playboy, amongst many other publications. A long-time professor at Brown University, he makes his home Providence, Rhode Island.

About the Author

Robert Coover has published fourteen novels, three short story collections, and a collection of plays since The Origin of the Brunists received the The William Faulkner Foundation First Novel Award in 1966. At Brown University, where he has taught for over thirty years, he established the International Writers Project, a program that provides an annual fellowship and safe haven to endangered international writers who face harassment, imprisonment, and suppression of their work in their home countries. In 1990-91, he launched the world's first hypertext fiction workshop, was one of the founders in 1999 of the Electronic Literature Organization, and in 2002 created CaveWriting, the first writing workshop in immersive virtual reality. Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times has said "Of all the postmodern writers, Robert Coover is probably the funniest and most malicious, mixing up broad social and political satire with vaudeville turns, lewd pratfalls, and clever word plays that make us rethink both the mechanics of the world and our relationship to it." Coover has also received awards from the Lannan Foundation, American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Endowment of the Arts, and the Rea Lifetime Short Story Award.