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35 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A comic-erotic send-up of Nouvelle Vague fiction,
By A Customer
This review is from: Spanking the Maid (Coover, Robert) (Paperback)
This elegant, concisely written masturbatory farce, in which similar scenes of a maid's transgression and a master's punishment are played out over and over again, conflates the delicious repetitive nature of erotic fantasy with a send-up of "Last Year at Marienbad"-type fiction--to an effect that is both erotically arousing and hilarious. Coover's greatest tour-de-force and a tiny, but original, masterpiece.
9 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Coover pulls out all the stops in a neat little manual.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Spanking the Maid (Coover, Robert) (Paperback)
Here's a book that's devilishly sadistic to its readers, as well as to its characters, with its "narrator" having the upper hand. Like much of Coover's work, it passes from reality to fantasy, teasing and taunting the reader's expectations. It's also very funny, and obviously well-researched. However, I don't think a screen adaptation would work too well (although this was done with some degree of success in "The Babysitter"--but would it get past the front office?). I suppose Liz Hurley might enjoy the starring role, or perhaps casting Madeleine Stowe and Alan Rickman would be more in order. Kudos to Coover!
20 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Clever but light-weight exercise,
This review is from: Spanking the Maid (Coover, Robert) (Paperback)
Coover's brief tale takes a paper-thin premise and runs it right into the ground--yes, it's yet another one of those self-indulgent, self-conscious post-modernist novels seldom enjoyed by anyone who isn't an undergraduate English major. It's a very short book that you will likely wish were shorter. But though the plot goes (by design) nowhere, and the book is stuffed with the kind of affected whimsy employed by writers far too impressed with their own intelligence, there is some witty, bouncy prose to enjoy and a few inspired comic moments. For what it is, it's well put together.
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