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'She arrives at 7.40, ten minutes late...' She babysits for Mr and Mrs Tucker. She has left a boyfriend alone for the evening. From this seemingly simple start Robert Coover masterfully explores the subtle barrier between 'reality' and thought. As the babysitter...
Ros is dead. A bad actress but a tremendous lover, when she was alive her thighs pillowed cast members, crew, friends and acquaintances. Now Gerald's party continues around her murdered corpse (it is, after all, just the first of the night), as the guests indulge in...
These two novellas by the groundbreaking, fearless, and immeasurably influential Robert Coover are dirty, funny and brilliant. In Briar Rose a sleeping beauty is trapped in an enchantment for a hundred years, dreaming of stories in which someone like her wakes up...
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...
'Paul stepped off the curb and got hit by a truck. He didn't know what it was that hit him at first, but now, here on his back, under the truck, there could be no doubt.'One of 50 original and exciting books of short stories, publishing in February to celebrate half a...
Un penthouse tout en haut d'un gratte-ciel de Manhattan. S’y tiennent d’étranges festivités mais à quoi, ou à qui, tous ces convives piochés au hasard d’une Amérique aussi arrogante que ridicule, livrée à ses caprices et désirs les plus débridés, à ses lubies de...
Robert Coover, principal romancier postmoderne encore vivant, pose son regard iconoclaste sur un grand classique de la littérature américaine dans cette suite des "Aventures de Huckleberry Finn". On suit ainsi Huck, à la marge, dans sa fuite de la "sivilisation" (sic)...
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