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Item Details
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A CHILD AGAIN
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| By: |
Robert Coover |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£17.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1932416226 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781932416220 |
| Publisher: |
MCSWEENEY'S PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 2005 |
| Pages: |
200 |
| Description: |
Casey returns to bat. The Pied Piper pipes again. Little Red Riding Hood is not safe yet. Robert Coover returns with a new collection of short fiction, reexamining our shared narrative heritage ? myths, fairy tales, and favorite childhood stories ? and unearthing the underlying hope, fear, and wonder at their core. Playful yet systematic, satirical yet empathetic, Coover uses the stories of our past to point towards a fiction of the future. |
| Synopsis: |
Casey returns to bat. The Pied Piper pipes again. Little Red Ridinghood isnot safe yet.Robert Coover returns with a new collection of short fiction, reexaminingour shared narrative heritage -- myths, fairytales, and favorite childhoodstories -- unearthing the underlying hope, fear, and wonder at their core.Simultaneously playful and systematic, satirical and empathetic, Coover usesthe stories of our past to point towards a fiction of the future. |
| Publication: |
US |
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McSweeney's Publishing |
| Prizes: |
Commended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Storyteller) 2006 |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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