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
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
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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)
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