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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