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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.

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 4/28/2011 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780141192956, 978-0141192956
      ISBN10: 014119295X

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      Book 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.

      Trade Review
      A marvellous magician ... a maker of miracles, a comic, a sexual tease * The New York Times Book Review *

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