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Stepmother. By Robert Coover. San Francisco: McSweeney's Books, 2004. 90 pp., illustrations.
In the first section of this fairy-tale metafiction for adults, Stepmother is attempting with whatever faulty magic she recalls to free her red-haired daughter from the dungeon of the royal palace, where--raped, naked, and bloody--the girl awaits execution for some unnamed impropriety she has allegedly committed. Stepmother is the first-person narrator of this section, which begins with her exhortation to the shackled girl, "Look at it this way, love, I tell her, no more slops to empty," and ends with the girl escaping on the back of her mother, who has temporarily transformed into a female unicorn. As narrators and focalizers shift, the rest of the story is hardly this hopeful, but it does continue throughout...
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