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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 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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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Fiction: special features Short stories

• Full title: Pricksongs & Descants
• Author: Robert Coover
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780141192956
• ISBN: 014119295X
• ID: 04358225
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 192 g
• Dimensions: 196 × 129 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. April 2011

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