New Pynchon blurb

English, Darrin English.Darrin at tcinc.com
Wed Jan 31 07:46:03 CST 1996


And there are the blurbs a few years back on James Hillman's and Michael 
Ventura's We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy--And the World's 
Getting Worse.  On the front:  "Provocative, dangerous, and high-spirited." 
 On the back:  "Finally, somebody has begun to talk out loud about what must 
change, and what must be left behind, if we are to navigate the perilous 
turn of this millennium and survive....  Ventura and Hillman deserve our 
thanks as well as our closest attention."

What other blurbs has Pynchon written?

Darrin
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Pynchon's blurb on the back cover of George Saunders' CivilWarLand in Bad
Decline (New York: Random House, 1996) reads:

"An astoundingly tuned voice -- graceful, dark, authentic, and funny."

Pynchon's blurbs seem to be getting shorter over the years. Wonder if he's
losing enthusiasm or if the editors are chopping down longer blurbs for
advertising use?

Bob




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