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Pricksongs and Descants: Fictions
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Grove Press
- Publish Date: Jan 5th, 2000
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.40in - 0.70in - 0.55lb
- EAN: 9780802136671
- Categories: • Literary• Fantasy - General• Short Stories (single author)
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David Burr Gerrard
@DBGerrard
3 years
Wrote The Epiphany Machine and Short Century. Teach fiction writing at The New School and the 92nd St. Y. Now only use four-letter words writing prose. He/Him.
@MilesKlee I grew briefly alarmed the other day while reading Robert Coover’s Pricksongs and Descants https://t.co/N0B8g89ca8
What people are saying
David Burr Gerrard
@DBGerrard
3 years
Wrote The Epiphany Machine and Short Century. Teach fiction writing at The New School and the 92nd St. Y. Now only use four-letter words writing prose. He/Him.
@MilesKlee I grew briefly alarmed the other day while reading Robert Coover’s Pricksongs and Descants https://t.co/N0B8g89ca8