Pricksongs and Descants Short Stories Author:Robert Coover 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 office elevator (while his fellow riders taunt and tempt him). And in the seminal, fractal The Babysitter every mo... more »ment in a single night is played and replayed. Every hope and threat of sex and violence done and undone. Coover's dark, willful, comic imagination revels brilliantly in contradictions, a master of chaos.« less