Pricksongs & Descants
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
4 July 2011
Summary
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). He also 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, willful, comic imagination revels brilliantly in contradictions, a master of chaos.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141192956 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 014119295X |
| Author: | Robert Coover, Kate Atkinson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 4 July 2011 |
| Weight: | 191g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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A marvellous magician … a maker of miracles, a comic, a sexual tease
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Robert Coover
Kate Atkinson
Kate Atkinson is one of the world’s foremost novelists. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum.
Life After Life, an acclaimed BBC TV series, won several prizes including the Costa Novel Award, as did A God in Ruins. Two further historical novels - Transcription and Shrines of Gaiety - were also Sunday Times bestsellers. She has published two critically acclaimed collections of short stories: Not the End of the World and Normal Rules Don’t Apply.
Her bestselling literary crime novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie, Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News?, and Started Early, Took My Dog, became a BBC television series starring Jason Isaacs. Jackson Brodie later returned in the novel Big Sky and the most recent, Death at the Sign of the Rook, was a number one bestseller.
Kate Atkinson was awarded an MBE in 2011 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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