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From: Steven Moore <mooresteven@att.net><br>
To: gaddis-l <gaddis-l@yahoogroups.com><br>
Cc: judech <judech@aol.com>; Tom McGonigle <tmcgonigle@hotmail.com>; mchale.11 <mchale.11@osu.edu>; Stephen Burn <Stephen.burn@glasgow.ac.uk>; joseph tabbi <jtabbi@gmail.com><br>
Sent: Sun, Jul 14, 2013 6:20 am<br>
Subject: eGad: forthcoming Pynchon novel<br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Since there are some Pynchon fans on this List, I
just finished reading the new novel (bound galley courtesy a former publishing
contact), and it's terrific. Publisher probably doesn't want any rogue reviews
this early in the game, so I'll limit myself to saying that it's like a cross
between <i>Inherent Vice </i><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal;">(comic tone) and
</span><i>Lot 49 </i><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal;">(another woman
investigating an ever-deepening mystery).</span>
<div style="FONT-STYLE: normal;">Set in NYC between early 2001
and early '02. (The 9/11 attack is an event, but not the main event.) 479 pages
of vintage Pynchon: insane complications, clever/awful puns, funny
acronyms--e.g. the Wahhabi Transreligious Friendship (WTF)--lots of slang,
shoptalk and technical terms (especially Internet & financial lingo), poetic
imagery, pop-culture references, snappy dialogue, ethnic humor, and of course a
large cast of colorful characters with ... ahm ... distinctive names: on
one page alone we meet Axel Quigley, Phipps Epperdew, and Professor Lavoof,
"generally acknowledged godfather of Disgruntlement Theory and developer of the
influential Disgruntled Employee Simulation Program for Audit Information and
Review, aka DESPAIR" (p. 87). Only a passing reference to ukuleles this time,
but a couple-three Hawaiian shirts and other displays of loud clothing.</div>
<div style="FONT-STYLE: normal;">As in <i>Vineland</i>, there
are amusing references to imaginary movies, including a snatch of dialogue from
Christopher Walken starring in <i>The Chi Chi Rodriguez Story</i>, along with
dark intimations about "the terminal truth about the U.S. government, worse than
anything you can imagine" (p. 117). </div>
<div style="FONT-STYLE: normal;">So smart, so funny, so hip, so
plugged in to everything. This is bound to be the novel of the season, despite
some heavy competition (see
<a href="http://www.themillions.com/2013/07/most-anticipated-the-great-second-half-2013-book-preview.html" target="_blank">http://www.themillions.com/2013/07/most-anticipated-the-great-second-half-2013-book-preview.html</a>,
which through some clerical error or other includes a reference to my
forthcoming book.)</div>
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