Pinocchio in Venice

by Coover, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780802134851
• ISBN10: 0802134858
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-10
• Publisher: Grove Press

Summary

Internationally renowned author Robert Coover returns with a major new novel set in Venice and featuring one of its most famous citizens, Pinocchio. The result is a brilliant philosophical discourse on what it means to be human; a hilarious, bawdy adventure; and a fitting tribute to the history, grandeur, and decay of Venice itself.

Table of Contents

A SNOWY NIGHT	13	(78)
1. Entrance	13	(7)
2. Masked Companions	20	(11)
3. The Gambero Rosso	31	(8)
4. Night of the Assassins	39	(10)
5. Alidoro's Rescue	49	(8)
6. The Philosophical Watchdog	57	(9)
7. A Strange Birth	66	(13)
8. The Movie of His Life	79	(12)
A BITTER DAY	91	(84)
9. The Devil's Flour	91	(10)
10. The Three Kingdoms	101	(10)
11. Art and the Spirit	111	(10)
12. In the House of the Dead	121	(9)
13. The Talking Cricket	130	(10)
14. Gran Teatro dei Burattini	140	(12)
15. A Gondola Ride	152	(9)
16. The Little Man	161	(14)
PALAZZO DEI BALOCCHI	175	(50)
17. View from the Clock Tower	175	(10)
18. The Miracle of the Mis-struck Hour	185	(12)
19. At L'Omino's Tomb	197	(14)
20. The Original Wet Dream	211	(14)
CARNIVAL	225	(92)
21. Plato's Prank	225	(13)
22. The Procession in Honor of Count Agnello Ziani-Ziani Orseolo and the Madonna of the Organs (New Acquisition)	238	(11)
23. The Last Chapter	249	(8)
24. La Bella Bambina	257	(13)
25. Cooked in Love	270	(10)
26. The Star of the Dance	280	(11)
27. The Fatal Math Book	291	(12)
28. The Field of Miracles	303	(14)
MAMMA	317
29. Exit	317