Pricksongs and Descants: Short Stories
by:
Robert Coover (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780452253216 (0452253217)
Publish date: September 1st 1970
Publisher: Plume
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Humor,
Academic,
Literature,
American,
20th Century,
Anthologies,
Fairy Tales,
College,
Short Stories
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...
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.
14 years ago
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