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Coover, Robert was born in 1932 in Charles City, Iowa, ENTERTAINMENT0.
(In his carnivalesque and riotously inventive Pricksongs &...)
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 repeating, re-imagined journeys in an office elevator (while his fellow riders taunt and tempt him), and in the seminal, fractal 'The Babysitter' every moment in a single night is played and replayed, every hope and threat of sex and violence done and undone. Coover's dark, wilfil, comic imagination revels brilliantly in contradictions, a master of chaos.
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(This was originally published in the NEW AMERICAN REVIEW ...)
This was originally published in the NEW AMERICAN REVIEW in 1968 as a long story entitled, "The Cat in the Hat for President." That was the year that Richard Nixon was first elected president and, according to a grand jury, the police rioted at the Democratic National Convention, where hippies and Yippies were protesting the Vietnam War--then at its height. Coover presents the Dr. Seuss's Cat in the Hat as the ideal presidential candidate because he can transform himself in an instant, appearing to be one thing before one audience, another before a different audience. The story is a brilliant satire of American politics that culminates in a hallucigenic view of American history that includes much of the sex and violence generally omitted from traditional histories. In the long run, the story celebrates the energy of creation and imagination, which is also the energy of destruction and devastation, that lies at the heart of American culture.
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( From Hollywood B-movies to Hollywood classics, ?"A Nigh...)
From Hollywood B-movies to Hollywood classics, ?"A Night at the Movies"?invents what "might have happened" in these Saturday afternoon matinees. Mad scientists, vampires, cowboys, dance-men, Chaplin, and Bogart, all flit across Robert Coover's riotously funny screen, doing things and uttering lines that are as shocking to them as they are funny to the reader. As Coover's Program announces, you will get Coming Attractions, The Weekly Serial, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, and more, but turned upside-down and inside-out.
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(Though Coover's message is bleak, his delivery is wonderf...)
Though Coover's message is bleak, his delivery is wonderfully comic (Bharati Mukherjee, The Globe & Mail (Toronto)) in this spare, tantalizing, and perfect book, named by Daphne Merkin in The New Yorker as one of her favorite S/M books.
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( In Robert Coover's latest collection of short stories, ...)
In Robert Coover's latest collection of short stories, we explore worlds where time is dangerously out of control. Worlds that unravel like films within films within films. Worlds obsessed with the temporary. Ultimately, we explore worlds that are exactly like our own. Features new and previously published stories. Robert Coover has published fourteen novels, three short story collections, and a collection of plays since The Origin of the Brunists received the William Faulkner Foundation First Novel Award in 1966. His short fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and Playboy. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
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(Remakes old stories: of Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Grete...)
Remakes old stories: of Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, and Beauty (who married her Beast and spends a lifetime suffering his doggy stink).
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( Pricksongs & Descants, originally published in 1969, is...)
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. Now available in a Grove paperback, Pricksongs & Descants is a cornerstone of Robert Coover's remarkable career and a brilliant work by a major American writer.
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( Casey returns to bat. The Pied Piper pipes again. Littl...)
Casey returns to bat. The Pied Piper pipes again. Little Red Ridinghood is not safe yet. Robert Coover returns with a new collection of short fiction, reexamining our shared narrative heritage -- myths, fairytales, and favorite childhood stories -- unearthing the underlying hope, fear, and wonder at their core. Simultaneously playful and systematic, satirical and empathetic, Coover uses the stories of our past to point towards a fiction of the future.
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( Internationally renowned author Robert Coover returns w...)
Internationally renowned author Robert Coover returns with a major new novel set in Venice and featuring one of its most famous citizens, Pinocchio. The result is a brilliant philosophical discourse on what it means to be human; a hilarious, bawdy adventure; and a fitting tribute to the history, grandeur, and decay of Venice itself.
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(These two novellas by the groundbreaking, fearless, and i...)
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 disappointed, or becomes a mother, or is stripped and defiled. And, as she dreams, outside, failed princes die and hang their remains on the thorns of a briar hedge. In Spanking the Maid a maid and her master are each committed to their own hard service: she, attempting to perform her simple duties without error; he, supplying punishment by rod, belt, hairbrush, whip, cane and slipper when she inevitably fails. These tales of desire are Coover at his most darkly playful.
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(Bloomfield Hills, MI and Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark, 19...)
Bloomfield Hills, MI and Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark, 1981. First Edition. Illustrated by Erica (Rikki) Ducornet. Quarto, 53 pp. As new, pristine and flawless. The special signed, limited edition - of 95 copies only - in cushioned red silk fine binding, gilt imprinting, Artemis paper, marbled endpapers, and with a page of Coover's own fair-copy handwritten manuscript tipped in on the verso of the half-title. Not to be confused with the larger limited run of 505 copies, this one is definitely meant for display; a stunning visual treat. Coover's often and usually humorously misunderstood farce-masterpiece of soft erotica and allegory, in its most collectible form; buy the trade issue if you want to read it. Visual sumptuousness of the book itself befits the character of the tale, and soft, symbolic illustrations by Rikki (Erica Ducornet) carry the tone. Eye candy on the cocktail table, but cosset it between soirees. One of Daphne Merkin's favorite S/M books. lg4
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Coover, Robert was born in 1932 in Charles City, Iowa, ENTERTAINMENT0.
Bachelor, Indiana University, 1953. Master of Arts, University Chicago, 1965.
Distinguished professor Brown University, Providence, 1981, now adjunct professor literature arts.
( Pricksongs & Descants, originally published in 1969, is...)
( Though Coover's message is bleak, his delivery is wonde...)
(Though Coover's message is bleak, his delivery is wonderf...)
(In his carnivalesque and riotously inventive Pricksongs &...)
( Internationally renowned author Robert Coover returns w...)
( From Hollywood B-movies to Hollywood classics, ?"A Nigh...)
(Remakes old stories: of Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Grete...)
(Somnium Scipionis: The Vision of Scipio Considered as a F...)
(From Hollywood B-movies to Hollywood classics, A Night at...)
( Originally published in 1969 and now back in print afte...)
(These two novellas by the groundbreaking, fearless, and i...)
(This was originally published in the NEW AMERICAN REVIEW ...)
( In Robert Coover's latest collection of short stories, ...)
( Winner of the William Faulkner Foundation Award and pre...)
(Exemplifying the best in narrative art, Robert Coovers th...)
(Night at the Movies or, You Must Remember This by Robert ...)
(Bloomfield Hills, MI and Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark, 19...)
(Includes two novellas "Briar Rose" and "Spanking the Maid.")
(Illustrated by Jerome Kaplan. Publisher's statement laid ...)
(Book by Coover, Robert)
( Casey returns to bat. The Pied Piper pipes again. Littl...)
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Member American Academy Arts and Letters (department literature).