The Origin of the Brunists

COOVER, Robert

ISBN 10: 0553118404 / ISBN 13: 9780553118407

Published by Bantam, 1966

Seller Inventory # 0553118404-4-36871688

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.

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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Origin of the Brunists
Publisher: Bantam
Publication Date: 1966
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Fair