A Child Again

Coover, Robert

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ISBN 10: 1932416226 ISBN 13: 9781932416220

Published by McSweeney's Books, San Francisco, CA, 2005

Language: English

Condition: As New Hardcover

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SIGNED - Duodecimo. Colorful, illustrated paper over board quarterbound in a dusky blue cloth backstrip with red lettering. Illustrated endpapers. This book is new and has only been opened for the author event. Signed by the author on the title page in black felt tipped pen. 276 pages. No dust jacket, as issued, but the rear board is covered by a pocket full of collectible cards and wrapped in an unbroken paper band. Collected short stories. A beautiful copy.

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Title

A Child Again

Publisher

McSweeney's Books, San Francisco, CA

Publication Date

2005

Language

English

ISBN 10

1932416226

ISBN 13

9781932416220

Binding

Hard Cover

Edition

First Edition, First Printing.

Condition

As New

Signed

Signed by Author(s)

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Casey returns to bat. The Pied Piper pipes again. Little Red Ridinghood is
not safe yet.

Robert Coover returns with a new collection of short fiction, reexamining
our shared narrative heritage -- myths, fairytales, and favorite childhood
stories -- unearthing the underlying hope, fear, and wonder at their core.
Simultaneously playful and systematic, satirical and empathetic, Coover uses
the stories of our past to point towards a fiction of the future.

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Inverting and perverting popular folklore and fairy tales is a constant of Coover's prolific, pyrotechnic career, from Pricksongs & Descants in 1969 to last year's Stepmother. A dazzling writer, he's in tip-top if familiar form with this collection of 18 outlandishly skewed tales that veer from slapstick hilarity ("McDuff on the Mound," in which mighty Casey still strikes out) to macabre despair ("The Return of the Dark Children," in which the children paraded away by the Pied Piper come home, with the rats, to haunt their town). "Sir John Paper Returns to Honah-Lee" expands the universe of Peter, Paul and Mary's cryptic "Puff the Magic Dragon" song; "Alice in the Time of Jabberwock" posits a Wonderland even more absurd than the original; "The Invisible Man" leads a lonely interior life; and Little Red Riding Hood is menaced and mesmerized by her "Grandmother's Nose." Fans of Coover's riotous wordplay and fondness for the grotesque, the satirical, the scatological and the erotic will feel right at home with this collection that, though entertaining, is more of the splendid same rather than something new. "Shuffleable deck-of-cards story" that comes with the book not seen by PW. (Oct.)
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