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A Child Again

by Robert Coover · 2005

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Casey returns to bat. The Pied Piper pipes again. Little Red Riding Hood is not safe yet. Robert Coover returns with a new collection of short fiction, reexamining our shared narrative heritage — myths, fairy tales, and favorite childhood stories — and unearthing the underlying hope, fear, and wonder at their core. Playful yet systematic, satirical yet empathetic, Coover uses the stories of our past to point towards a fiction of the future.

Genre
fantasyfantasyMore like thisLess of thisfairy talefairy taleMore like thisLess of thisfairy tale retellingsfairy tale retellingsMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 276 pages
Form
short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

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