Pynchon mention

[Doug Millison]

"Jonathan Franzen's two earlier novels, "The
Twenty-Seventh City" (1988) and "Strong Motion"
(1992), were messy and wildly ambitious epics, crammed
to overflowing with cautionary political plots and
tendentious asides meant to add up to a dyspeptic
portrait of America in the 1980's. Buried beneath the
Pynchonian pyrotechnics and Sinclair Lewisesque
satire, however, were intimate family dramas that
grounded the characters in a recognizable emotional
reality and provided an Updikean portrait of the
vagaries of domestic life. [...]"

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http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/04/books/04KAKU.html

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