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Pricksongs and Descants

By Robert Coover

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Pricksongs and Descants

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Pricksongs & Descants, originally published in 1969, is a virtuoso performance that established its author -- already a William Faulkner Award winner for his first novel -- as a writer of enduring power and unquestionable brilliance, a promise he has fulfilled over a stellar career. It also began Coover's now-trademark riffs on fairy tales and bedtime stories. In these riotously word-drunk fictional romps, two children follow an old man into the woods, trailing bread crumbs behind and edging helplessly toward a sinister end that never comes; a husband walks toward the bed where his wife awaits his caresses, but by the time he arrives she's been dead three weeks and detectives are pounding down the door; a teenaged babysitter's evening becomes a kaleidoscope of dangerous erotic fantasies -- her employer's, her boyfriend's, her own; an aging, humble carpenter marries a beautiful but frigid woman, and after he's waited weeks to consummate their union she announces that God has made her pregnant. Now available in a Grove paperback, Pricksongs & Descants is a cornerstone of Robert Coover's remarkable career and a brilliant work by a major American writer.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2000-01-05
Publication Date:
2000-01-05
Publisher:
Grove Atlantic
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0802136672
ISBN13:
9780802136671
Weight:
249 g
Height:
137 cm
Width:
208 cm
Thickness:
18 cm

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