The Public Burning
New York, NY: Viking Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Based on the true events surrounding the conviction and subsequent execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenburg, alleged Soviet Union spies in the late 1940s, Robert Coover (b.1932) satirizes the era of paranoia and offers a behind-the-curtain, funhouse mirror perspective on the politics and institutions of the United States during the Cold War. Fourteen years before the fall of the U.S.S.R. and..... More
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