Pricksongs & Descants
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Penguin Modern Classics
ISBN-10
014119295X
ISBN-13
9780141192956
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint
Penguin Classics
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 28th, 2011
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
188 grams
Dimensions
19.60 x 12.90 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Short stories
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Remakes old stories: of Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, and Beauty (who married her Beast and spends a lifetime suffering his doggy stink).
In his carnivalesque and riotously inventive Pricksongs & Descants Robert Coover remakes old stories: of Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, and Beauty (who married her Beast and spends a lifetime suffering his doggy stink). And he reshapes his own: a man makes repeating, re-imagined journeys in an office elevator (while his fellow riders taunt and tempt him), and in the seminal, fractal ''The Babysitter'' every moment in a single night is played and replayed, every hope and threat of sex and violence done and undone. Coover''s dark, wilfil, comic imagination revels brilliantly in contradictions, a master of chaos.
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