Ros is dead. A bad actress but a tremendous lover, when she was alive her thighs
pillowed cast members, crew, friends and acquaintances. Now Gerald's party cont
inues around her murdered corpse (it is, after all, just the first of the night)
, as the guests indulge in drinking, flirting and jealousies, and the police mak
e their brutal investigations.
An evening of cocktails, sex and violence, Rob
ert Coover's novel is a murder mystery as rousing and disorienting as the best d
runken party, a vaudevillian masterpiece.
