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.
Product details
- Paperback | 256 pages
- 129 x 198 x 15mm | 191g
- 28 Apr 2011
- Penguin Books Ltd
- PENGUIN CLASSICS
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- 014119295X
- 9780141192956
- 157,542
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