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Pricksongs & Descants: Fictions
by Robert Coover
- Used
- as new
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New
- ISBN 10
- 0802136672
- ISBN 13
- 9780802136671
- Seller
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Gilbertsville, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
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.
Signed by Robert Coover
Signed by Robert Coover
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Details
- Bookseller
- Janson Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M0421000187
- Title
- Pricksongs & Descants: Fictions
- Author
- Robert Coover
- Format/Binding
- Like new
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0802136672
- ISBN 13
- 9780802136671
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000-03
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About the Seller
Janson Books
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Gilbertsville, Pennsylvania
About Janson Books
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