Description
Pinocchio in Venice is a carnivalesque reemersion in the well-known fairy tale - as well as magic realism, Mann's Death in Venice, and Nabokov's Lolita - with the puppet, now an aged Nobel Prize winner and aesthete, returning to Venice to pay his final tribute. As he turns back to wood, Robert Coover's hero is reunited with his old friends and foes while he painfully searches for the Blue-Haired Fairy who put flesh on his limbs.
Written in Coover's signature style, this is both a brilliant meditation on what it means to be human and a hilarious and bawdy adventure. Pinocchio in Venice represents Coover at his finest.
Author: Robert Coover
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 01/10/1997
Pages: 330
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.03w x 1.01d
ISBN13: 9780802134851
ISBN10: 0802134858
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
- Fiction | Humorous | General