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Robert coover is the awardwinning author of twelve other novels. Im looking forward to this event and delighted that its free and open to the public. Set in a devastated berlin one month after the close of the second world war, berlin has been acclaimed as ambitious. Robert lowell coover born february 4, 1932 is an american novelist, short story writer, and t. A wild, pornographic, funny, postmodern rant that, like most from coover lately.

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