The Adventures of Lucky Pierre: Directors' Cut - Hardcover

Coover, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802117244 ISBN 13: 9780802117243

Publisher: Grove Pr, 2002

Synopsis

In the heart of Cinecity, the frozen meta-city where Lucky Pierre plies his trade, Lucky Pierre, a part clown, part porn star who is literally defined by his films, takes on a wide range of sexual roles at the behest of his nine muse-directors. By the author of Briar Rose and Gerald's Party.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Coover teaches electronic and experimental writing at Brown University.

From Publishers Weekly:

Film has long been one of Coover's favorite tropes, used brilliantly in the short story collection A Night at the Movies (1987). His new novel returns to the medium, this time endlessly looping through triple-X porn flicks. Protagonist Lucky Pierre is a porn star buffoon who wanders about Cinecity-the capital of Coover's fictional land-with his penis sticking out of his pants. Cinecity is a porno dystopia where every encounter between man and woman, or for that matter man and animal, or woman and vegetable, is destined to end in sex. The nine "reels" of the novel are dominated by nine different women who are stars, directors and muses. Lucky encounters Cinecity's anti-celebrity guerrilla activists, the Extars, led by Carlotta; gets married in a group orgy to Connie; and is victimized by Cinecity's sadistic mayor, Cora. He suspects that having his penis frozen, falling down an elevator shaft and nearly drowning aren't just filmset accidents, but are actually scripted into an overall film-one in which he is set up as the fall guy. His strategy is to try to find a way out of the film, but in the logic of the novel Lucky himself is merely the embodiment of a film's trajectory, and escape is impossible. The result is a carnival of stasis and penis jokes that shows Coover at his most precious. Some passages are marvels of descriptive prose-fierce, vigorous and pungent-but the endless scenes of torture and smutty closeups are tedious and curiously spiritless, and Coover says little about celluloid culture and movie narratives that he hasn't said elsewhere with more generosity and exuberance.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Pr
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0802117244
• ISBN 13: 9780802117243
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304