Pricksongs & Descants
  • Published:
    May-1988
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  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
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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 began Coover's now-trademark riffs on fairy tales and bedtime stories. In these riotously word-drunk fictional romps, two children follow an old man into the woods, trailing bread crumbs behind and edging helplessly toward a sinister end that never comes; a husband walks toward the bed where his wife awaits his caresses, but by the time he arrives she's been dead three weeks and detectives are pounding down the door; a teenaged babysitter's evening becomes a kaleidoscope of dangerous erotic fantasies-her employer's, her boyfriend's, her own; an aging, humble carpenter marries a beautiful but frigid woman, and after he's waited weeks to consummate their union she announces that God has made her pregnant.
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    • First Edition
    • May-1988
    • Dutton
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 031702809X
    • ISBN13: 9780317028096
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    • Sep-1970
    • Plume
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0452263603
    • ISBN13: 9780452263604
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    • Sep-1970
    • Plume
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0452257794
    • ISBN13: 9780452257795
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    • Sep-1970
    • Penguin
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0452254809
    • ISBN13: 9780452254800
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    • Sep-1970
    • Plume
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0452259142
    • ISBN13: 9780452259140
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    • Sep-1970
    • Plume
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0452253217
    • ISBN13: 9780452253216
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    • May-2011
    • Penguin
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0141193026
    • ISBN13: 9780141193021
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    • May-2014
    • Dzanc Books
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Jun-2014
    • Dzanc Books
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1941088864
    • ISBN13: 9781941088869
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    • Jun-2014
    • Dzanc Books
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1453233687
    • ISBN13: 9781453233689



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