A controversial best-seller in 1977, The Public Burning has since
emerged as one of the most influential novels of our time. The
first major work of contemporary fiction ever to use living
historical figures as characters, the novel reimagines the three
fateful days in 1953 that culminated with the execution of alleged
atomic spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Vice-President Richard
Nixon - the voraciously ambitious bad boy of the Eisenhower regime
- is the dominant narrator in an enormous cast that includes Betty
Crocker, Joe McCarthy, the Marx Brothers, Walter Winchell, Uncle
Sam, his adversary The Phantom, and Time magazine incarnated as the
National Poet Laureate. All of these and thousands more converge in
Times Square for the carnivalesque auto-da-fe at which the
Rosenbergs are put to death. And not a person present escapes
implication in Cold War America's ruthless "public burning".
General
Imprint: |
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 1998 |
First published: |
April 1998 |
Authors: |
Robert Coover
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Dimensions: |
230 x 150 x 39mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
562 |
Edition: |
1st Grove Press Ed |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8021-3527-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
LSN: |
0-8021-3527-7 |
Barcode: |
9780802135278 |
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