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...
gosh it is hard to believe that postmodernism used to be where it was at. seems almost quaint to think about now.the writing here is dark and sardonic. some rare moments of realistic emotion occasionally intrude upon the constantly surreal tableau. i might have had a problem with what appears to be ...
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.
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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