Spanking the Maid: &, Briar Rose

By Robert Coover

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141192992
• ISBN13: 9780141192994
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.4" x 5.1"