Robert Coover. The Grand Hotels (of Joseph Cornell).(Brief Article) From: The Review of Contemporary Fiction | Date: June 22, 2002| Author: McLaughlin, Robert L. | COPYRIGHT 2002 Review of Contemporary Fiction. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Robert Coover. The Grand Hotels (of Joseph Cornell). Burning Deck, 2002. 64 pp. Paper: $10.00.

The fantastic hotels described in this slim and beautiful volume--the first half of which was first published in the collection A Convergence of Birds last year--are inspired by the boxes/sculptures of Joseph Cornell. Coover imagines a chain of metaphysical hotels and offers a chapter describing each one. The hotels are fairy-tale, childhood, fun-house, spage-age, nature, and e...