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Robert Coover's The Public Burning

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My Beautiful Bus Balkans who visits the Isle onPoetic, comic, obsessed with minutiae, MY BEAUTIFUL BUS is a welcome dose of serious frivolity at the expense of the contemporary novel . . . Poetic, comic, obsessed with minutiae, My Beautiful Bus is a welcome dose of serious frivolity at the expense of the contemporary novel. Based on an actual bus trip taken by Oulipo member Jacques Jouet in the late '80s, his fictional reconstruction of the experience twenty years later focuses not so much on the