DC-3

Richard Romeo richardromeo at hotmail.com
Mon Oct 25 14:15:15 CDT 1999


>Thanks for this: I'm reading _Life and Fate_ by Vasily Grossman, and
>people fly around in dakotas.  I figured it was a DC-3, but wasn't too
>sure.
>
>It's a great novel, of interest to pynchonites.  I just read through
>a sequence of crowding into the baths while jars of 'Zyklon B' are
>being loaded up.  It's vaguely the story of Stalingrad in late 1942,
>but sweeps all over the map.
>
>
>veg
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One of my favorite novels--up there with Terra Nostra--the effect of not 
only the battle of Stalingrad, but the effects of communism on the 
scientific establishment is downright heartbraking. Grossman really does a 
great job of balancing the evils of Hitler and Stalin in the book.

Rich

rich>

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