Word: coover
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PRICKSONGS & DESCANTS, by Robert Coover. 256 pages. Dutton...
...UNIVERSAL BASEBALL ASSOCIATION, INC., J. HENRY WAUGH, PROP., by Robert Coover. A 56-year-old accountant who sees the cosmos as an intricate baseball game records the hits, runs and many errors in his tragicomic efforts to be God's scorekeeper...
...UNIVERSAL BASEBALL ASSOCIATION, INC., J. HENRY WAUGH, PROP., by Robert Coover. A 56-year-old accountant who sees the cosmos as an intricate baseball game records the hits, runs and many, many errors in his tragicomic efforts to be God's scorekeeper...
...UNIVERSAL BASEBALL ASSOCIATION, INC., J. HENRY WAUGH, PROP., by Robert Coover. The cosmos is an intricate baseball game, or is it vice versa, in this entertaining allegory about an accountant who destroys himself when he relinquishes reality for illusion...
...things, it is a humorous evocation of the characters and the ambiance that have given baseball its mythic quality. Bernard Malamud's The Natural was a strikingly effective allegory of the baseball hero as a contemporary Sir Percival who in the end is destroyed by the myth-hungerers. Coover is less morally emphatic. He does suggest that God cannot forestall man's doom, and that man can destroy himself when he relinquishes reality for illusion...