Pricksongs and Descants - Robert Coover • BookLikes (ISBN:B00K627XFW)

Pricksongs and Descants

by: Robert Coover (author)

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... show more

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Format: Kindle Edition

ASIN: B00K627XFW

Publisher: Dzanc Books

Pages no: 256

Edition language: English

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Fantasy, Classics, Humor, Academic, Literature, American, 20th Century, Anthologies, Fairy Tales, College, Short Stories

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The Lazy Blogger - Rose Mary Boehm rated it

14 years ago

http://rose38.booklikes.com The Lazy Blogger - Rose Mary Boehm 4.0 Pricksongs and Descants: Short Stories

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Robert Coover manages masterfully to toggle between horror and beauty, between truth and illusion, the profound and the ridiculous. He always surprises and never lets us down as far as brilliant writing is concerned. Coover is an orignal, unique voice, very much in his own world, out on a limb. A co...

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so many books, so little time rated it

16 years ago

http://cynesthesia.booklikes.com so many books, so little time 2.0 Pricksongs and Descants

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Honestly? Meh. Angela Carter did this sort of thing a whole lot better. Perhaps P&S suffers a bit from all the similar works that have come along in subsequent decades. The story about Joseph and Mary is genuinely hilarious.

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