# Pricksongs & Descants

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- Authors: [Robert Coover](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-coover)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4119-295-6
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2011-04-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.