The Adventures of Lucky Pierre: Raw Footage

by Robert Coover

Book Overview

Lucky Pierre is the most famous man in Cinecity, where pornography is the basis of social norms and the mayoral motto is "Pro Bono Pubis." He walks to work (the studio where his films are made) in the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802117244
• ISBN13: 9780802117243
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
• Length: 405 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Perre gets lucky and nine again...

Think of the infinite cycle of revenge initiated by Fellini's 8 and a half. Yes, the dream sequence! No, not the first one, the other later on when he is living in perfect harmony with all the 8 maybe 9 women of his dreams... Broadway still sings about it! Peter Greenway tried to re-movie it HIS way... Coover's way WAY outdoes them all proving that he is firmly transmodern, transcinematic, pantronic, pornoclastic, iconomorphic! Check the references. Go to imdb.com . Verify that Coover found Lucky Pierre in Herschell Gordon Lewis 1961 forgotten naive exploit of the same name which no one cared to see or comment on. Brought Pierre out of retirement to protagonize as only he could, the brunt of feminist deconstructive romp in this newly meta-Tarrantinized nitemare of romp and stomp, this de-Ramboesque purge so telling of the times. It is Felini lionised! It is Mastroiani finally "Slavroinized"! It is the all-consumming, selfcom-summing, sum total of all male fears penned with the supreme mastery of the pen-is-my-pained-penis only Coover commands. This is a brilliant work, in more ways than anyone can find or fathom. A slap o mastery that one can only hope, has the infinity of sequels it deserves and engenders in the mind! If you have not read it yet and you are not reading it now, what the hell are you waiting for?