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The Adventures of Lucky Pierre by Robert Coover (Paperback, 2004)

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—where Lucky Pierre plies his trade. Part porn star, part clown, part everyman, Lucky has no life outside his films. by Robert Coover. Robert Coover is the award-winning author of fourteen books, most recently Briar Rose (Grove, 1996) and Ghost Town (Holt, 1998).

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Lucky Pierre is the most famous man in Cinecity, where porgraphy is the basis of social rms and the mayoral motto is Pro Bo Pubis. He walks to work (the studio where his films are made) in the winter cold, icicles tipping his constantly exposed and engorged penis, and every small interaction provides ather opportunity for exercising his prurient art. This vision of a sexualized universe is unique in that social power (and the power to direct, rather than merely appear in, these sex-films) belongs entirely to women. Each chapter (or reel ) of the book is headed with the name of one of nine women (so, in reality, they are muses, but they are also the artists), and each bears her aesthetic stampwhether the dominatrix mayor, the experimental avant-garde filmmaker, the ribald cartoonist who reanimates him with her pen when he has been left by the mayor in a swbank to freeze, the wife who makes tender home sex movies, etc. Lucky Pierre himself seems to have free will, indeed, existence outside his films. He is commanded by these women, and by the overwhelming impulses of his prodigiously endowed organ. The book is a collection of fantasiesa man entering his office instantly begins acrobatically copulating with the receptionist on her desk; a pia teacher administers discipline to his nubile young female students; a castaway discovered by the Nine Muses, who have never seen a man before and quickly begin to test his unfamiliar parts; an engagement party turns into a frenzied bacchanal; a wedding into a sadomasochistic ritual and then a chase scene. But satisfaction is complicated. Pierre is often made ridiculous, a clown as much as a leading man, and always, everything that happens to him is seen; there is part of his life that is t, potentially, a film. Several times, he attempts to escape, but he is always recaptured and punishedor his escape is proven never to be real in the first place. For example, he joins up with the Extars, a guerrilla group of squatters who adopt him as Crazy Leg, their leader; with them, in particular Lottie, their young leading lady, he rediscovers the vivid joys of life as a sexual outlawincluding copulating with her on the trapeze of a circus. But he can never escape the tentacles of the mayor and the legit industry of Cinecity. Later he is offered the chance to rejoin the Extars, his internalization of his new status won t allow itif it was ever a real choice. Are these Pierre s fantasies? But in a world in which he does t own his own life or his body, where the past can be rewritten as easily as the dialogue can be faked in a redub of one of his scenes, his thoughts are t even his own. Even so, L.P. continues his perhaps futile attempts to define his own destiny. In the end, grown old and decrepit, he learns his next film is titled The Final Fuck i.e., it s the end of his career. Morose and attempting to avoid the inevitable, he flees to a showing of his own work, which ends up leading him, w resigned to his fate, back to the soundstagewhere, in the end, he rediscovers ecstasy, and the closure of his destiny.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN-10
0802140416
ISBN-13
9780802140418
eBay Product ID (ePID)
105750552

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503g
Height
209mm
Width
141mm

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Place of Publication
NY
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27mm
Author Biography
Robert Coover is the award-winning author of fourteen books, most recently Briar Rose (Grove, 1996) and Ghost Town (Holt, 1998). He has won fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and has been the recipient of the William Faulkner Award, the American Academy of Arts & Letters Award, and other honors. His other works of fiction include John s Wife, The Public Burning, Pinocchio in Venice, and Gerald s Party. He teaches writing at Brown University, with a concentration in electronic and experimental fiction, and is widely known as the guru of hypertext fiction. He divides his time between Providence, RI, London, and Barcelona.
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Author(s)
Robert Coover
Date of Publication
17/02/2004
Subject
General & Literary Fiction
Imprint
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Genre
General & Literary Fiction
Country of Publication
United States

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