Pricksongs & Descants
Reeks: Penguin Modern Classics
Robert Coover
- 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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