Overview

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.

ISBN-13

9780141192956

ISBN-10

014119295X

Weight

0.42 Pounds

Dimensions

5.08 x 0.59 x 7.80 In

List Price

$19.58

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Paperback

Pages

256 pages

Publisher

Penguin Books

Published On

2011-04-28



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