“In Bed One Night”

Title“In Bed One Night”
Year for Search1980
AuthorsCoover, Robert [Lowell](b. 1932)
Secondary TitlePlayboy
Date Published1980
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Dystopia in which a man finds two strangers in his bed, who explain that they have been assigned to his bed to alleviate homelessness. It is clear that who is assigned and who people are assigned to depend on class and income.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in his In Bed One Night and Other Brief Encounters (Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1983), 14-18; and in his Going for a Beer: Selected Short Fictions (New York: W. W. Norton, 2018), 161-64. 

Holding Institutions

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Author Note

(b. 1932)

Full Text

1980 Coover, Robert [Lowell] (b. 1932). “In Bed One Night.” Playboy (1980). Rpt. in In Bed One Night and Other Brief Encounters (Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1983), 14-18; and in his Going for a Beer: Selected Short Fictions (New York: W. W. Norton, 2018), 161-64. PSt

Dystopia in which a man finds two strangers in his bed, who explain that they have been assigned to his bed to alleviate homelessness. It is clear that who is assigned and who people are assigned to depend on class and income.