Going For a Beer

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by Robert Coover


  Ghost Town

  Briar Rose

  John’s Wife

  Pinocchio in Venice

  Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears?

  A Night at the Movies

  Gerald’s Party

  In Bed One Night & Other Brief Encounters

  Spanking the Maid

  A Political Fable

  The Public Burning

  A Theological Position

  Pricksongs & Descants

  The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.

  The Origin of the Brunists

  Going for a Beer is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright © 2018 by Robert Coover

  Introduction copyright © 2018 by T.C. Boyle

  All rights reserved

  First Edition

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  Jacket design by Peter Mendelsund

  Jacket illustration based on an image by Saimon Sailent / istock / Getty Images

  The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

  Names: Coover, Robert, author. | Boyle, T. Coraghessan, writer of introduction.

  Title: Going for a beer : selected short fictions / Robert Coover ;

  introduction by T.C. Boyle.

  Description: First edition. | New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2017051773 | ISBN 9780393608465 (hardcover)

  Classification: LCC PS3553.O633 A6 2018 | DDC 813/.54—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017051773

  ISBN: 978-0-393-60847-2 (e-book)

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