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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9781932416220 ISBN: 1932416226 Label: McSweeney's Manufacturer: McSweeney's Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 200 Publication Date: October 01, 2005 Publisher: McSweeney's Studio: McSweeney's Sales Rank: 502189 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Casey returns to bat. The Pied Piper pipes again. Little Red Riding Hood is not safe yet. Robert Coover returns with a new collection of short fiction, reexamining our shared narrative heritage — myths, fairy tales, and favorite childhood stories — and unearthing the underlying hope, fear, and wonder at their core. Playful yet systematic, satirical yet empathetic, Coover uses the stories of our past to point towards a fiction of the future. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Outstanding, clever, cynical and sympathetic fabulist short storiesRobert Coover is one of the most celebrated writers of our time, for novels such as The Public Burning and for short fiction collected in books such as Pricksongs and Descants. Coover has always been something of a fabulist, and in A Child Again he is overtly working that vein. The stories are reimaginings of fairy tales, children's stories, a song ("Puff the Magic Dragon"), puzzles. There is even a depiction of a stick figure visiting our world. The title of the collection suggests a return to childhood ... Read More Rating: - Good from beginning to endThis collection of short stories by Robert Coover is nothing short of genius. First of all, let me say that I don't usually read short story collections beginning to end. This collection, however, I read cover to cover. It consumed me. The power of Coover's prose cuts deeper than the fun, mercurial language initially suggests-- you'll find yourself thinking about these stories as you ride to work; you'll find yourself comparing them to real life situations; you'll find yourself mentioning them in conversation; ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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