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  Briar Rose (Coover, Robert) (Paperback) By (author) Robert Coover

  

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  Short Description for Briar RoseCoover puts his unique spin on one of the oldest and best-known of all fairy tales, "Sleeping Beauty", telling the story of a prince trapped in the briars; a sleeping beauty who cannot awaken, dreaming of a succession of kissing princes; and the old spell-casting fairy who inhabits the princess's dreams, regaling her with legends of other sleeping beauties and trying to imagine the nature of human
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  • Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
  • Published: 01 January 1998
  • Format: Paperback 96 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780802135414 ISBN 10: 0802135412
  • Sales rank: 376,861

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• Called a "master" by The New York Times Book Review, Robert Coover has been one of the most important figures in postmodern literature for over twenty years. In Briar Rose, he puts his unique spin on one of the oldest and best-known of all fairy tales, Sleeping Beauty.Briar Rose tells of a prince trapped in the briars; a sleeping beauty who cannot awaken, dreaming of a succession of kissing princes; and the old spell-casting fairy who inhabits the princess's dreams, regaling her with legends of other sleeping beauties and trying to imagine the nature of human desire.