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Pricksongs & Descants

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141192956

  • Length: 256  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 191g

  • RRP: £12.99

Pricksongs & Descants

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.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141192956

  • Length: 256  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 191g

  • RRP: £12.99

Reviews

  • A marvellous magician ... a maker of miracles, a comic, a sexual tease

    The New York Times Book Review

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About the Author

Robert Coover

Robert Lowell Coover was born in Iowa, 1932. Between studying undergraduate Slavic Studies and a Master's degree in Humanities, he served in the US Navy. His novels and short stories usually address Communism and US politics through fabulation, metafiction and occasionally magic realism. He is currently an author and professor in the Literary Arts program at Brown University, splitting his time between the USA and London. He is one of America's pioneering postmodernists.

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