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Title: PRICKSONGS & DESCANTS
By: Robert Coover, Kate Atkinson
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 014119295X
ISBN 13: 9780141192956
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Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 1 April, 2011
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 256
Description: Remakes old stories: of Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, and Beauty (who married her Beast and spends a lifetime suffering his doggy stink).
Synopsis: 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.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Returns: Returnable
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