M&D&P--Charles Clerc

[Paul Mackin]

Excuse me I meant a companion type book with only minimal interpretation.

		P.

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Paul Mackin wrote:

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> On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Richard Romeo wrote:
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> > Hey all--just came by this:
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> > Mason & Dixon & Pynchon
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> >   By Charles Clerc
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> >    University Press of America.
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> >                $26.50
> >                      Paper
> >                           0-7618-1792-1
> >                                      September2000
> >                                                   256pp
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> >   Charles Clerc's Mason & Dixon & Pynchon is the first book-length critical 
> > study of Thomas Pynchon's latest novel. Clerc's study
> >   approaches the novel from a variety of perspectives, including historical 
> > and literary. Substantial attention is given to the time
> >   period. A survey of over 50 critical responses to the book and excerpts 
> > from the journal of Mason and Dixon are also included.
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> Reminds me that someone--some lister--once said that a Companion-type
> volume for the novel was in the works. Something like Weisenburger's on
> GR, with useful facts and background information to help readers with
> P's take on things but only interpretation. Did such a thing ever come
> out? Or is this possibly it?
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> 		P.
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