Noir by Robert Coover was a challenge for me. I approached it with a sense of anticipation as well as dread. Coover is a post modernist writer (and I usually detest post modernism), but the basic concept seemed interesting. A noir novel interpreted into a post-modern spin. And it’s a book that some will love, but others (like me) will have to fight to get through all the post-modern annoyances.

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