Pricksongs and Descants

Name: Pricksongs and Descants
Author: Robert Coover

by Robert Coover

Story collection of metafictional and experimental pieces exploring narrative possibilities

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Robert Coover

Robert Coover is a postmodern fabulist whose fiction systematically dismantles mythological and popular narrative forms—baseball, the public burning, Pinocchio—to reveal their ideological machinery. The Public Burning is his most ambitious novel.

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The Origin of the BrunistsSatirical novel depicting apocalyptic millennial cult in Pennsylvania coal country
The Universal Baseball AssociationNovel reimagining baseball as intricate social and metaphysical system
The Public BurningCarnivalesque historical novel of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg through surreal prose
Gerald's PartyChaotic comedy of party mayhem spiraling into murder mystery