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: | 9780141192956 |
| Publication date: | 28th April 2011 |
| Author: | Robert Coover |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 224 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Shorter Reads |
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.
Pricksongs & Descants features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Shorter Reads
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Pricksongs & Descants was written by Robert Coover and published by Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Pricksongs & Descants has 224 pages
Yes it is part of Penguin Modern Classics series
£9.89, reduced from £10.99. In Stock.