West Condon, small-town USA, five years later: the Brunists are back,
loonies and cretins aplenty in tow, wanting it all--sainthood and
salvation, vanity and vacuity, God's fury and a good laugh--for the end
is at hand.
The Brunist Day of Wrath, the long-awaited sequel to the award-winning
The Origin of the Brunists, is both a scathing indictment of
fundamentalism and a careful examination of a world where religion
competes with money, common sense, despair, and reason.
Robert Coover has published fourteen novels, three books of short
fiction, and a collection of plays since The Origin of the Brunists
received the William Faulkner Foundation First Novel Award in 1966. His
short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and Playboy,
amongst many other publications. A long-time professor at Brown
University, he makes his home Providence, Rhode Island.