Abstract
Reviewers of Coover's novels respond-critically, in the main-to his flamboyant use of archetypes. Patterns, myths, symbols, and folklore are Coover's stock-intrade (Commonweal). Newsweek complains of the predilection for theology, which has been an identifying thumbprint since he published his first novel. Although his interest in ritual and faith is non-religious, Coover does lead us through the overgrown byways of GOD literature, 1 into realms of messiahs, sacrificial victims, apocalypses, and even a down-at-heels god. Other reviewers, bothered by an indefinable coldness in the novels, recoil from what they take to be Coover's attitude toward mankind.
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