The Brunist Day of Wrath

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.