A Night at the Movies, or, You Must Remember This

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From Hollywood B-movies to Hollywood classics, A Night at the Movies invents what "might have happened" in these Saturday afternoon matinees. Mad scientists, vampires, cowboys, dance-men, Chaplin, and Bogart, all flit across Robert Coover's riotously funny screen, doing things and uttering lines that are as shocking to them as they are funny to the reader. As Coover's Program announces, you will get Coming Attractions, The Weekly Serial, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, and more, but turned upside-down and inside-out.

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ISBN-10 1-56478-160-7

ISBN-13 9781564781604

Publication Date Mar 2007

Nb of pages 187

Dimensions 5.5 x 8.5 in.

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New York Times Book Review

Robert Coover has made literary art out of a total immersion in the movies. He isn't merely recycling old movie plots or drawing on the glamorous atmosphere of Hollywood. Rather, what he's doing is

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Times Literary Supplement

Brazenly witty.

The Observer

Vintage Hollywood nostalgia, pure and potent, unsullied and safe, like sex in some back row of the cinema of the mind . . . a brilliantly malicious tribute to the mesmeric powers of film.

Publishers Weekly

As thrilling as a striking dream.

Cleveland Plain Dealer

All our darkest wants, fears, dreams and myths are here in that magnificent celluloid palace no VCR will ever replace . . . Coover's molded sentences and dire sentiences awe me.

Kansas City Star

Coover's skill as a parodist is breathtaking.

Daily Mail

Salvador Dali has nightmares like this.

Hartford Courant

A Night at the Movies is well worth reading.

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