Pricksongs & Descants
Author: Coover, Robert
ISBN: 9780141192956
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 04 Jul 2011
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
Coover's powerful retelling of traditional fairy tales, new to Penguin Modern Classics
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.
ISBN: 9780141192956
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 04 Jul 2011
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
Coover's powerful retelling of traditional fairy tales, new to Penguin Modern Classics
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.
