praise
"Spanking the Maid is hard-core allegory.... a very funny book, a tragicomedy." -- The New York Times Book Review, Alan Friedman
about the author
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 NewYorker,Harper's, and Playboy, amongst many other publications.