Pricksongs & Descants Paperback / softback
by Robert Coover
Part of the Penguin Modern Classics series
Paperback / softback
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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:28/04/2011
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- ISBN:9780141192956
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:28/04/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9780141192956
