Delillo's new book

Mark.Novitz at ny.ubs.com Mark.Novitz at ny.ubs.com
Tue Oct 29 10:27:41 CST 1996


     IA5TEXT
     
     Excerpted in Harper's, actually...special section in the middle of the 
     issue - different paper, different color, if I remember correctly...
     
     /mark/
     /nyc/


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Subject: Re: Delillo's new book
Author:  owner-pynchon-l at nyux/DD.RFC-822=owner-pynchon-l at waste.org
Date:    10/28/96 5:26 PM


At 03:06 PM 10/28/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Just read a wire story about an aucton to be held this week by publishers 
>over Don Delillo's latest book, entitled "Pafko at the Wall".
>
>It is reported as a "1400-page epic framed around the 1951 World Series in 
>which the New York Giants beat the Brooklyn Dodgers on a dramatic home run 
>by Bobby Thompson, with Andy Pafko watchingit sail over the fence."
>
>"It's rally about the nuclear threat and the Cold War." 
>
>Sounds interesting.
     
     
Excerpted in _Granta_ last year, wasn't it? Excellent.



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