W.P. competition

[KENNETH HOUGHTON]

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Subject: Re: W.P. competition
Author:  "Meg Larson" <mgl at tardis.svsu.edu> at dbnaccip
Date:    6/5/97 7:32 AM


     
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> From: Andre Buys & Nicole Slagter <A.Buys at net.HCC.nl> 
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: W.P. competition
> Date: Thursday, June 05, 1997 6:23 AM
     
22) Gus McCrae: Larry McMurtry, _Lonesome Dove_ 
> 
>    Can't resist a competition.
>    
>    The following characters were featured in novels, stories or plays 
>    published during the last 25 years. Name the title and author of
>    the work in which each appears. 
>    
>    (1) Saleem Sinai: Salman Rushdie, _Midnight's Children_ 
>    (2) Case: William Gibson, _Neuromancer_
>    (3) T.S. Garp: John Irving, _The World According to Garp_ 
>    (4) Sophie Z.: William Styron, _Sophie's Choice_?
>    (5) Cesar Castillo: Oscar Hijuelos, _The Mambo Kings Play Songs of 
>    Love_
>    (6) Tyrone Slothrop: Thomas Pynchon, _Gravity's Rainbow_ 
>    (7) Coalhouse Walker: E.L. Doctorow, _Ragtime_
>    (8) Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza: 
_Love in the Time of Cholera_, G G-M

>    (9) Parlabane: _The Rebel Angels_, 
Robertson Davies
>    (10) Edmund Moorash: "Category of the Exhibition," Steven Millhauser

>    (11) Fevvers: Angela Carter, _Nights at the Circus_ 
>    (12) Harry Angstrom: John Updike, _Rabbit_ tetralogy 
>    (13) Milkman Dead: Toni Morrison, _Song of Solomon_
>    (14) Sherman McCoy: Tom Wolfe, _Bonfire of the Vanities_
>    (15) Ignatius Reilly: John Kennedy Toole, _The Confederacy of 
>    Dunces_
>    (16) Wiley Silenowicz: _The Runaway Soul_, Howard Brodkey
>    (17) Piere Brossard: _The Statement_, Brian Moore
>    (18) Severian: Gene Wolfe's _Book of the New Sun_ tetralogy
>    (19) Azaro: _Songs of Enchantment_, Ben Okri
>    (20) John Lempriere: Lawrence Norfolk, _L'Empriere's Dictionnary_ 
>    (21) Celie: Alice Walker, _The Color Purple_
>    (22) Gus McCrae: (as noted above)
>    (23) Tita de la Garza: _Like Water for Chocolate_, Laura Esquivel
>    (24) Stevens: Kazuo Ishiguro, _The Remains of the Day_
>    (25) Tremonisha Smarts.: Ishmael Reed, _Reckless Eyeballing_ 
(are you sure about this; thought it was Charles Fuller's _A 
Soldier's Play_ -- which would also have been the only play 
listed...

>    
>     Who can fill in the blanks? Maybe we can send in a joint entry. 
>    
>    Nicole
>