Detailed item info | Synopsis | Lucky Pierre is a famous porn star who is idolized by the folks who live in Cinecity, a utopian metropolis where sex is the main value. His exploits both on- and off-screen are the focus of this raunchily picaresque novel.
| | Size | | Length: | 304 pages | | Height: | 8.5 in. | | Width: | 6.3 in. | | Thickness: | 1.5 in. | | Weight: | 24.0 oz. |
| | Publisher's Note | A virtuosic performance by one of "our most venturesome metafictional fabulists" (The New York Times Book Review), The Adventures of Lucky Pierre is the culmination of a project Coover has been working on for more than a quarter of a century. It is a tour de force that confirms why Coover is one of our preeminent writers. The place is Cinecity, the frozen meta-city where Lucky Pierre plies his trade. Part porn star, part clown, Pierre is quite literally defined by his films. Following the city motto -- Pro bono pubis -- each of Pierre's nine muse-directors creates her own sexual galaxy with Pierre the star of her show. Pierre becomes a naive castaway, a naughty little boy, a submissive slave, a lovestruck hubby, a sexual outlaw, a dirty cartoon, a sex machine, and more. But what will happen when the film ends? A sparkling meditation on how both sex and stories compel and invent us -- in both magical and violent ways -- The Adventures of Lucky Pierre is a masterpiece from one of America's best writers. "Of all the postmodernist writers, Robert Coover is probably the funniest and most malicious." -- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "The supreme chronicler of the unreality of American life." -- Carey Harrison, San Francisco Chronicle "Coover couldn't write a dull note to the milkman." -- John Schulian, Los Angeles Times Book Review
| | Industry reviews | "A wild, pornographic, funny, postmodern rant....In the tradition of TRISTRAM SHANDY or FINNEGANS WAKE, this is a story that can be opened at any point and read at length with great pleasure."
Kirkus Reviews (07/15/2002)
"[Coover] holds storytelling itself up to the light for a better view; he turns it upside down and gives it a vigorous shake to see what combinations of the old and new might fall out. It isn't easy to sustain such an exercise over 400 pages and to keep the reader on board at the same time, and reading this novel is an exercise in mixed extremes. One veers back and forth from malevolent delight...to impatience, even tedium....Mr. Coover's work, in other words, is not for everybody; it is frankly not for me. But it is important to remember that Mr. Coover is a risk taker, striving to tear literature out of the soil of the commonplace...."
New York Times - Richard Bernstein (11/13/2002)
"The dean of lickerish American metafiction returns with another salacious adventure....Overwritten and overthought, Coover's novel has a subtle sadness in its heart, but the lower parts get top billing."
New Yorker (12/23/2002)
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