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  The Adventures of Lucky Pierre (Coover, Robert) (Paperback) By (author) Robert Coover

  

  

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  Short Description for The Adventures of Lucky PierreA virtuosic performance, The Adventures of Lucky Pierre is a masterpiece. It is set in Cinecity, the frozen capital of an unnamed utopia -- or is it dystopia? -- where Lucky Pierre plies his trade. Part porn star, part clown, part everyman, Lucky has no life outside his films. Through the lenses of his nine female muse-directors, Lucky becomes a naive castaway, a submissive slave, a child star in
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  • Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
  • Published: 17 February 2004
  • Format: Paperback 416 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780802140418 ISBN 10: 0802140416
  • Sales rank: 1,152,550

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• Avirtuosic performance that secures Robert Coover's place as "maybe America's most famous experimental writer, certainly its dirtiest" ("Entertainment Weekly), "The Adventures of Lucky Pierre is a masterpiece. It is set in Cinecity, the frozen capital of an unnamed Utopia--or is it dystopia?--where Lucky Pierre plies his trade. Part porn star, part clown, part everyman, Lucky has no life outside his films. Through the lenses of his nine female muse-directors, Lucky becomes a naive castaway, a submissive slave, a child star in a barnyard frolic, a love-struck suburban hubby, a dirty cartoon, a sex-pilgrim in virtual reality, and much much more. A sparkling love song to the magic of moving pictures, and a meditation--both joyous and serious--on how sex compels and invents us, "The Adventures of Lucky Pierre is a spectacular tour de force from an American master.