Pricksongs and Descants |
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Author:
| Coover, Robert |
Introduction by:
| Atkinson, Kate |
ISBN: | 978-0-14-119295-6 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2011 |
Publisher: | Penguin Books, Limited
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $32.99 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionIn 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.