Pope's Rhinoceros out in US

[Craig Clark]

Dan Schmidt wrote:
 
> I hate to distract anyone from the GR/GR, the Rainbow being reading
> material enough for anyone, but I wanted to inform folks that I just
> saw Lawrence Norfolk's "The Pope's Rhinoceros" in my Local Bookstore,
> so it's now out in the US.
> 
> For those just joining us, his first novel, "Lempriere's Dictionary",
> is a lot of fun, historical and wacky at the same time, and very
> Pynchonian in places; there are specific scenes which seem
> specifically to be parodies of Pynchon (I mean parody in the old
> sense, not "making fun of").  I don't know much about the new book
> except that it takes place in 1515 or so; the British quotes on the
> back are all pretty ravetastic.

Thanks for the tip. A review reprinted in South Africa from the UK's 
_Guardian_ featured an interview with Norfolk in which he expressed 
his utter admiration for TRP. In particular as I recall he emphasised 
the way in which TRP was able to work so much detailed scientific 
information into the text without ever interrupting the flow of 
narrative.

  
Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"