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Briar Rose & Spanking the Maid
Häftad, 2011
149 kr
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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, …
Att smiska hembiträdet
Häftad, 2007
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
124 kr
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En man vaknar upp med morgonstånd, halvt förvirrad av nattens drömmar. Hembiträdet går runt och pysslar, småsjungande gamla psalmer. Men varför måste hon alltid göra fel? Varje morgon är det något hon glömt, om så bara trosorna. Och han måste bestraffa henne igen och igen. Piskan viner: SMASK! …
Conceptualisms
The Anthology of Prose, Poetry, Visual, Found, E- & Hybrid Writing As Contemporary Art
Av Joe Amato, David Antin m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
508 kr
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A wide-ranging anthology of experimental writing—prose, poetry, and hybrid—from its most significant practitioners and innovators A variety of names have been used to describe fiction, poetry, and hybrid writing that explore new forms and challenges mainstream traditions. Those phrases include …
Gerald's Party
Häftad, 1997
277 kr
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Robert Coover's wicked and surreally comic novel takes place at a chilling, ribald, and absolutely fascinating party. Amid the drunken guests, a woman turns up murdered on the living room floor. Around the corpse, one of several the evening produces, Gerald's party goes on a chatter of voices, …
Huck Out West
A Novel
Inbunden, 2017
299 kr
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At the end of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, on the eve of the Civil War, Huck and Tom Sawyer decide to escape "sivilization" and "light out for the Territory." In Robert Coover's Huck Out West, also "wrote by Huck," the boys do just that, riding for the famous but short-lived Pony Express, then …
Spanking the Maid
E-bok, 2014
176 kr
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Written early in Coover''s illustrious career, Spanking the Maid is an impeccable and spellbinding novel about a master, his maid, and the irresistible ritual that binds them. A bedroom and a bathroom are the only places where the two characters meet, and every day it is the same. The maid comes to …
Pricksongs & Descants
Häftad, 2011
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
152 kr
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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 …
Gerald's Party
Häftad, 2011
179 kr
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Ros is dead. A bad actress but a tremendous lover, when she was alive her thighs pillowed cast members, crew, friends and acquaintances. Now Gerald's party continues around her murdered corpse (it is, after all, just the first of the night), as the guests indulge in drinking, flirting and …
Briar Rose & Spanking the Maid
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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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, …
Gerald's Party
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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Ros is dead. A bad actress but a tremendous lover, when she was alive her thighs pillowed cast members, crew, friends and acquaintances. Now Gerald's party continues around her murdered corpse (it is, after all, just the first of the night), as the guests indulge in drinking, flirting and …
Pricksongs & Descants
E-bok, 2011
100 kr
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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 …
Romance of the Thin Man and the Fat Lady
E-bok, 2011
40 kr
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'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 …
Huck Out West
A Novel
Häftad, 2018
180 kr
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At the end of Huckleberry Finn, on the eve of the Civil War, Huck and Tom Sawyer decide to escape “sivilization” and “light out for the Territory.” In Robert Coover’s vision of their Western adventures, Tom decides he’d rather own civilization than escape it, leaving Huck “dreadful lonely” in a …
Going For a Beer
Selected Short Fictions
Häftad, 2019
190 kr
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Robert Coover has been playing by his own rules for more than half a century, earning the 1987 Rea Award for the Short Story as “a writer who has managed, willfully and even perversely, to remain his own man while offering his generous vision and versions of America.” Here, in this selection of his …
Babysitter
E-bok, 2014
17 kr
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'She arrives at 7.40, ten minutes late...' She babysits for Mr and Mrs Tucker. She has left a boyfriend alone for the evening. From this seemingly simple start Robert Coover masterfully explores the subtle barrier between 'reality' and thought. As the babysitter triggers the men's sexual fantasies, …
Pinocchio in Venice
Häftad, 1997
266 kr
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A very old professor returns to Venice to finish work on his final book, but as he searches for the proper ending, he slowly begins to turn back into wood.
Pricksongs & Descants
Fictions
Häftad, 2000
266 kr
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This volume presents a collection of short stories based on traditional fairy tales that expose the futility of idealism.
Origin of the Brunists
Häftad, 2000
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
317 kr
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Open House
E-bok, 2023
153 kr
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One hundred floors above Manhattan, a diverse group of guests and gate-crashers come together in a luxurious penthouse. The down-and-out blend seamlessly with the well-to-do. Scammers find themselves the target of a con so long that by the time they begin to figure it out it’s too late to extract …
Street Cop
Häftad, 2021
206 kr
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STREET COP sees two literary masters joining forces to scrutinize the arc of the American myth. Art Spiegelman's first original book in more than a decade, this detective novelette explores contemporary politics, the future of urban life, and the working of memory in a digital world.
Brunist Day of Wrath
E-bok, 2014
172 kr
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The sequel to Coover''s award-winning The Origin of the Brunists , takes a look at religion, cults, myths, and how small towns relying on slowly dying businesses mesh together with an amazing cast of characters, varying points of view and the usage of language that Coover has been renowned for …
Night at the Movies
E-bok, 2014
172 kr
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Previews, coming attractions, horror, romance, mystery, even intermissions--you name the type of movie and there''s a fiction within this collection to cover it--all written with the exuberance you''ve come to expect in Robert Coover''s writing.
Gerald's Party
E-bok, 2014
176 kr
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Robert Coover''s wicked and surreally comic novel takes place at a chilling, ribald, and absolutely fascinating party. Amid the drunken guests, a woman turns up murdered on the living room floor. Around the corpse, one of several the evening produces, Gerald''s party goes on — a chatter of voices, …
Ghost Town
E-bok, 2014
170 kr
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A nameless rider plods through the desert toward a dusty Western town shimmering on the horizon. In his latest novel, Robert Coover has taken the familiar form of the Western and turned it inside out. The lonesome stranger reaches the town - or rather, it reaches him - and he becomes part of its …
