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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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780141193021 ● Publisher Penguin Books Ltd ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2267869 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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