Pricksongs & Descants

Reeks: Penguin Modern Classics

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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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