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Original Title:	John's Wife
ISBN:	0684830434 (ISBN13: 9780684830438)
Edition Language:	English

John's Wife Paperback | Pages: 432 pages

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Title	:	John's Wife
Author	:	Robert Coover
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 432 pages
Published	:	April 19th 1997 by Simon & Schuster (first published 1996)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels

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Smalltown life… Community manners and mores… Robert Coover is outright jeering so John’s Wife turns out to be much wickeder than adulterous Couples by John Updike and much weirder than suburban tales of John Cheever.

The attention of John’s wife, however momentary and enigmatic, was one of the laurels the town’s men competed for, while the women, contrarily, often felt threatened by John’s wife, yet protected by her at the same time.

John’s wife is literally invisible but she is always present at the background as a symbol of some obscure and distant virtues.

…though most men admired John, a model for all men, there were many among them who also feared him some, and even those who, resenting him for his usurpations, mistrustful of his success and power, would have been glad to see him fall, feeling the relief of a balance struck, as when gangsters or presidents die, or wars disturb the dull interminable peace.

John is a pillar of society… He is a mover and a shaker… The entire town turns around him… He is always full of triumphs and celebrations…

“The collective effervescence of these gatherings, is like that of cheap champagne – it goes straight to your head, dissolving moral boundaries and separating self from body neat as an alchemical reaction, then awakens you, bloated and headachy, to an earthbound morning utterly without consolation…”

Everything is fine but gradually reality starts merging with dreams and dreams start growing darker and darker until they finally turn into a ceaseless nightmare – an eerily fizzy comedy of horrors...
For what is town after all? “…city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.” Ezekiel 11:3

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And when the dust cleared, all that was left standing was the big front door, completely intact, columns, architrave, and all. Majestic. Inviting. But opening onto nothing. (284)In John's Wife, Coover shows the need for mythical narratives to give meaning to our mundane lives. Even a back of beyond nameless "little prairie town" has to be given an updated mythology to stay relevant in the changing times; the origin tales of this pioneer town having grown stale from stasis. Coover gives the sly

I had to read several times but wor4h it. I liked the complex characters. The misogyny was so typical of mid size suburbia of the Midwest even today. The women who had any sense were old and/or dead. And I still am pissed we never got her name. lol

Sexually crude, misogynistic to the point of (hopefully) caricature, with constantly, kaleidoscopically changing points of view in long, one to two page paragraphs, hard to follow for that, which I am hopefully recreating to some extent with a run-on sentence of my own; but back to Coover, who is supremely gifted and not a little twisted and in John's Wife has taken the residents of a small town and filleted them in what I can only describe as an updated version of Updike's Couples without the



Excellent book.. Of the charecters you meet, you acctualy KNOW John's wife the least (she rememains nameless). The novel kind of rotates around her much in the same way the moon rotates around earth. As the title charecter fades away, the charecters lives kind of spin out of control. Oddly Beautiful book.

Smalltown life Community manners and mores Robert Coover is outright jeering so Johns Wife turns out to be much wickeder than adulterous Couples by John Updike and much weirder than suburban tales of John Cheever.The attention of Johns wife, however momentary and enigmatic, was one of the laurels the towns men competed for, while the women, contrarily, often felt threatened by Johns wife, yet protected by her at the same time.Johns wife is literally invisible but she is always present at the

Alfonso's report on John's Wife at page 201: Ok I'ma try to explain my case Why do I think this book is crap, Alfonso? Look, I don't mind complicated plots. I don't mind reading 40 pages of a dude clipping his toenails as long as I, you know, find the character intresting. I don't mind having to deal with a 10 page long dramatis personae section, I don't mind family trees that will scare the living shit out of almost everyone I know, I don't mind reading 388 footnotes but I need to honestly