A Night at the Movies: Or, You Must Remember This - Softcover

Coover, Robert

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9780020191209: A Night at the Movies: Or, You Must Remember This

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ISBN 10: 0020191200 ISBN 13: 9780020191209

Publisher: Collier Books, 1988

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In this new collection of interlocking short fiction the author of "Gerald's Party" turns on their heads the assumptions and conventions of the silver screen

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About the Author:

Coover teaches at Brown University. He also lives in Providence, RI.

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Coover here presents a series of short, connecting fictions associated with the cinema. Thus, we are given contrivances titled "Adventure," "Comedy," and "Romance," but they violate our expectations of these time-honored forms: "Shootout at Gentry's Junction" is a typical Western, but the good guys lose; in "Charlie in the House of Rue," a sort of funhouse, the tricks turn nasty, even murderous; and the romance in "You Must Remember This" sours into sordid adultery. These longer fictions are framed by shorter ones carrying out the cinematic conceit: there are previews, shorts, cartoons, even an intermission. Coover's style is viciously witty, so that one must finally ask "What's the point?" A brilliant but empty tour de force, though librarians should still consider this new work by the author of the well-received Gerard's Party ( LJ 2/1/86).Susan Avallone, "Library Journal"
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