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Pricksongs & Descants

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Exemplifying the best in narrative art, Robert Coover's brilliant collection PRICKSONGS & DESCANTS tells good stories and tells them well. These fictions challenge the assumptions of our age; they use the fabulous to probe beyond randomly perceived events, beyond mere history. They are weapons that counterpoint our consciousness, that show us the need for new modes of perception. [From the back cover]

Author(s): Coover, Robert
Edition: 1
Publisher: Plume
Year: 1969

Language: English
Pages: 256
City: New York
Tags: US Experimental Fiction

THE DOOR: A Prologue of Sorts 13
THE MAGIC POKER 20
MORRIS IN CHAINS 46
THE GINGERBREAD HOUSE 61
SEVEN EXEMPLARY FICTIONS 76
Dedicatoria y Prologo a don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 76
1 Panel Game 79
2 The Marker 88
3 The Brother 92
4 In a Train Station 98
5 Klee Dead 104
6 J's Marriage 112
7 The Wayfarer 120
THE ELEVATOR 125
ROMANCE OF THE THIN MAN AND THE FAT LADY 138
QUENBY AND OLA, SWEDE AND CARL 150
THE SENTIENT LENS 168
1 Scene for "Winter" 168
2 The Milkmaid of Samaniego 174
3 The Leper's Helix 179
A PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENT 183
THE BABYSITTER 206
THE HAT ACT 240