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A Night at the Movies, or, You Must Remember ThisAuthor: Robert Coover American Literature Series March 2007 187 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 Dimensions: Paperback, 1-56478-160-7 Retail Paperback Price: Our Paperback Price: $9.56—20% OFF! 
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Book Description
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.About the Author
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Robert Coover was born in Charles City, Iowa, in 1932. He is widely regarded as one of America's most influential living writers. He graduated from Indiana University in 1955, and from the University of Chicago in 1965. His first novel, The Origin of Brunists, was published in 1966 and won the William Faulkner Award that same year. Among his other works are A Night at the Movies (1987), Ghost Town (1998), and The Adventures of Lucky Pierre (2002). Coover has served as writer in residence at many universities and workshops, and currently teaches experimental writing at Brown University. |
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Praise
"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 enlarging his literary technique by forcing it to assimilate cinematic conventions and to approximate filmic style . . . Vivacious and entertaining."—Edmund White, New York Times Book Review"Brazenly witty."—John Clute, Times Literary Supplement
"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."—Lorna Sage, The Observer
"As thrilling as a striking dream."—Publishers Weekly
"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."—James R. Frakes, Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Coover's skill as a parodist is breathtaking."—Charles G. Masinton, Kansas City Star
"Salvador Dali has nightmares like this."—Peter Sheridan, Daily Mail
"A Night at the Movies is well worth reading."—Chris Patsilelis, Hartford Courant