Robert Coover — Gerald&Apos;S Party

London, Heinemann, 1986. First edition. Cloth. a Gerald's Party is Robert Coover's fourth novel and centres around the narration of main character, Gerald, as he attends a party. The party turns grim when a beautiful actress is murdered, though Coover plays with the traditional writing style of a murder mystery and explores telling the story in an innovative way.Robert Coover is an American novelist and short story writer, as well as a Professor Emeritus at Brown University. His writing is often categorised as post-modernist, fabulation, or metafiction. This copy is in its original dust wrapper and is signed by the author to the title page.This copy came from the library at Julians Park, Hertfordshire, the previous home of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie (1902-1968). She was an English socialite and through her mother was the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, excellent, with no discernible shelf wear. Unclipped dust wrapper is excellent, with just a small amount of age-toning to the extremities. Author's signature to the title page. Internally, firmly bound. Pages have some age-toning to the extremities, but are otherwise completely clean. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine/Near Fine.