Pricksongs and Descants Fictions

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 Pr