Synopsis
Winner of the William Faulkner Award for best first novel, this work explores the rise of a religious cult in a small coal-mining town. When the end of the world is announced, the town is shaken to its foundations, with neighbors at each other's throats and death and martyrdom in the offing.
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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.
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The Origin of the Brunists
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ISBN 10: 0553118404
ISBN 13: 9780553118407
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Bantam edition, November 1978. Clean & tight mass market paperback, unread in Near Fine condition. "IT'S COMING--THE END OF THE WORLD! Hallelujah!, the last fateful day that will shatter life on the planet, when sinners must pay up and a few shall be saved--Armageddon! Bursting with vitality and teeming with colorful characters, this is Robert Coover's famous novel of a strange grass-roots American cult. A catastrophic explosion in a small mining town in western Pennsylvania leaves ninety-seven dead--and one survivor. Giovanni Bruno's miraculous escape captures the imagination of the good people of West Condon. Rapidly, the Brunist cult takes form with a luminous white bird as its symbol and white tunics as its garb. Then speeded and spread by the magic of TV, it sprouts all over America. Then comes the Day of Redemption." [publisher copy] "Fiction as it should be, real, hot with life and conflict, multi-dimensional, with the bizarre and the commonplace. A remarkable effort of the imagination."--Book Week. 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." Pristine unread NF paperback w/sharp corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine & slight uniform yellowing of pages. Seller Inventory # RUB1818
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Scarce uncorrected proof of this reprint edition of Coover's first novel. Book. Seller Inventory # 018560