Briar Rose
by:
Robert Coover (author)
Robert Coover's many acclaimed works of fiction have established him as a powerhouse among America's postmodernist writers. With Briar Rose, he casts his own unmistakable style on an ageless tale. A brilliant recreation of the timeless Sleeping Beauty story, Briar Rose tells of a prince trapped...
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Robert Coover's many acclaimed works of fiction have established him as a powerhouse among America's postmodernist writers. With Briar Rose, he casts his own unmistakable style on an ageless tale. A brilliant recreation of the timeless Sleeping Beauty story, Briar Rose tells of a prince trapped in the briars; a sleeping beauty who cannot awaken, dreaming of a succession of kissing princes; and the old spell-casting fairy who inhabits the princess's dreams, regaling her with legends of other sleeping beauties and trying to imagine the nature of human desire.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780802135414 (0802135412)
Publish date: December 19th 1997
Publisher: Grove Press
Pages no: 96
Edition language: English
Robert Coover can imagine an endless variety of rape scenes, each more revolting than the last. What talent! With writing like this, one doesn't even need a plot -- which is fortunate because there isn't one, just sordidness alternating with abstract and pointless musings from the three underdevelop...
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