Briar Rose & Spanking the Maid

Briar Rose & Spanking the Maid
Authors
Coover, Robert & John Banville
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Date
2011-04-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
1.84 MB
Lang
en
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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, or is stripped and defiled. And, as she dreams, outside, failed princes die and hang their remains on the thorns of a briar hedge. In *Spanking the Maid *a maid and her master are each committed to their own hard service: she, attempting to perform her simple duties without error; he, supplying punishment by rod, belt, hairbrush, whip, cane and slipper when she inevitably fails. These tales of desire are Coover at his most darkly playful.