Briar rose ; and, Spanking the maid

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Briar rose ; and, Spanking the maid

Robert Coover ; with an introduction by John Banville

(Penguin modern classics, . Fiction)

Penguin, 2011

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Briar rose & Spanking the maid

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"Published together in Penguin classics 2011"--T.p. verso

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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.

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