The Public Burning

Name: The Public Burning
Author: Robert Coover

by Robert Coover

Carnivalesque historical novel of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg through surreal prose

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Robert Coover

Robert Coover is a postmodern fabulist whose fiction systematically dismantles mythological and popular narrative forms—baseball, the public burning, Pinocchio—to reveal their ideological machinery. The Public Burning is his most ambitious novel.

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