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Imprint: Penguin Classics
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Published: 28/04/2011
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ISBN: 9780141192956
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Length: 256 Pages
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RRP: £12.99
Pricksongs & Descants
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Robert Coover
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Kate Atkinson (Introducer)
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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Imprint: Penguin Classics
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Published: 28/04/2011
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ISBN: 9780141192956
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Length: 256 Pages
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RRP: £12.99
Reviews
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A marvellous magician ... a maker of miracles, a comic, a sexual tease
The New York Times Book Review
