Briar Rose & Spanking the Maid

✍ Scribed by Robert Coover; Robert Coover; John Banville

• Book ID: 108017462
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 73 KB
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780141193007

✦ Synopsis

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.