Writing in The Guardian, Hari Kunzru has said of Coover that he, along with ???such writers as Thomas Pynchon, William Gass, Donald Barthelme and John Barth, broke open the carapace of postwar American realism to reveal a fantastical funhouse of narrative possibilities.??? Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times has said that ???Of all the postmodernist writers, Robert Coover is probably the funnie