Pricksongs and Descants

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 fictiona...