Romance Of The Thin Man And The Fat Lady
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Romance Of The Thin Man And The Fat Lady
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Author : Robert Coover
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-02-15
Romance Of The Thin Man And The Fat Lady written by Robert Coover and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-15 with Fiction categories.
'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 century of Penguin Modern Classics. This book contains Romance of the Thin Man and the Fat Lady, The Babysitter, and A Pedestrian Accident.
Pricksongs And Descants
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Author : Robert Coover
language : en
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Release Date : 2000-01-05
Pricksongs And Descants written by Robert Coover and has been published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-05 with Fiction categories.
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.
Understanding Robert Coover
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Author : Brian Evenson
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2003
Understanding Robert Coover written by Brian Evenson and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Literary Criticism categories.
This text takes on the work of Robert Coover, a major figure of postmodern metafiction. In an analysis of Coover's short stories and novels, it demonstrates how Coover writes in several different modes that cross over into one another.
Pricksongs Descants
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Author : Robert Coover
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-04-28
Pricksongs Descants written by Robert Coover and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-28 with Fiction categories.
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.
The Lady In The Looking Glass
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Author : Virginia Woolf
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-02-15
The Lady In The Looking Glass written by Virginia Woolf and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-15 with Fiction categories.
'People should not leave looking-glasses hanging in their rooms any more than they should leave open cheque books or letters confessing some hideous crime.' 'If she concealed so much and knew so much one must prize her open with the first tool that came to hand - the imagination.' Virginia Woolf's writing tested the boundaries of modern fiction, exploring the depths of human consciousness and creating a new language of sensation and thought. Sometimes impressionistic, sometimes experimental, sometimes brutally cruel, sometimes surprisingly warm and funny, these five stories describe love lost, friendships formed and lives questioned. This book includes The Lady in the Looking Glass, A Society, The Mark on the Wall, Solid Objects and Lappin and Lapinova.
Aesthetics And Contemporary Discourse
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Author : Herbert Grabes
language : en
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Release Date : 1994
Aesthetics And Contemporary Discourse written by Herbert Grabes and has been published by Gunter Narr Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Aesthetics categories.
Robert Coover And The Generosity Of The Page
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Author : Stephane Vanderhaeghe
language : en
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Release Date : 2013-03-05
Robert Coover And The Generosity Of The Page written by Stephane Vanderhaeghe and has been published by Deep Vellum Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Robert Coover and the Generosity of the Page is an unconventional study of Robert Coover's work from his early masterpiece The Origin of the Brunists (1966) to the recent Noir (2010). Written in the second person, it offers a self-reflexive investigation into the ways in which Coover's stories often challenge the reader to resist the conventions of sense-making and even literary criticism. By portraying characters lost in surroundings they often fail to grasp, Coover's work playfully enacts a "(melo)drama of cognition" that mirrors the reader's own desire to interpret and make sense of texts in unequivocal ways. This tendency in Coover's writing is indicative of a larger refusal of the ready-made, of the once-and-for-all or the authoritative, celebrating instead, in its generosity, the widening of possibilities—thus inevitably forcing the reader-critic to acknowledge the arbitrariness and artificiality of her responses.
Red Rose White Rose
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Author : Eileen Chang
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-02-15
Red Rose White Rose written by Eileen Chang and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-15 with Fiction categories.
There were two women in Zhenbao's life: one he called his white rose, the other his red rose. One was a spotless wife, the other a passionate mistress. Isn't that just how the average man describe a chaste widow's devotion to her husband's memory - as spotless, and passionate too? Maybe every man has had two such women - at least two. Marry a red rose and eventually she'll be a mosquito-blood streak smeared on the wall, while the white one is "moonlight in front of my bed." Marry a white rose, and before long she'll be a grain of sticky rice that's gotten stuck to your clothes; the red one, by then, is a scarlet beauty mark just over your heart. In Eileen Chang's eloquent and evocative novella, Zhenbao is a devoted son, a diligent worker, and guarded in love. But when he meets a friend's spoilt, spirited, desirable wife, he cannot resist her charms, or keep their relationship under his control. As he succumbs to passions and resentments, Red Rose, White Rose is both sensual and restrained.
The Last Demon
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Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-02-15
The Last Demon written by Isaac Bashevis Singer and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-15 with Fiction categories.
'I, a demon, bear witness that there are no more demons left.Why demons, when man himself is a demon?Why persuade to evil someone who is already convinced?I am the last of the persuaders.' Isaac Bashevis Singer, who won the Nobel Prize in 1978, is best-remembered for his humane and moving short stories, which drew comparison with those of Maupassant and Chekhov. The three collected here, about a girl who pretends to be a man in order to study the Torah, a frustrated demon, and a writer trying to understand the confusion of a holocaust survivor, illuminate the great themes of human suffering with supernal grace. This book includes The Last Demon, Yentl the Yeshiva Boy and The Cafeteria.
Through The Wall
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Author : Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-02-15
Through The Wall written by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-15 with Fiction categories.
'There once lived a woman who was so fat, she couldn't fit in a taxi, and when going into the subway she took up the whole width of the escalator' Ludmilla Petrushevskaya has been acclaimed as one of Russia's greatest living writers. These five dreamlike and blackly comic stories, two of which are here in English for the first time, tell of lost children, midnight forests, strange transformations, cruel curses, grief and resilience, in the darkest of modern fairy tales. This book contains Through the Wall and Anna and Maria.