Strange and Challenging Detours?!

[James Kyllo]

I'm 2/3 through it, and thoroughly enjoying

best

James
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: monroe at mpm.edu 
  To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
  Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 10:39 PM
  Subject: Strange and Challenging Detours?!


  'Cloud Atlas' is praised for 'storytelling brilliance'

  Friday, October 1, 2004

  The post-modern novel, once hailed as the future of fiction, has fallen
  on hard times in the 21st century. Thomas Pynchon and John Barth now
  seem like strange and challenging detours in the steady march of
  straight-ahead realist narrative.

  But David Mitchell has picked up the long-dropped post-modern mantle and
  is charging smartly ahead with strong, complex novels, filled with
  diversionary tactics and stylistic high jinks. The 35-year-old British
  writer, who recently moved to Ireland after years of living in Japan, is
  gaining increasing recognition, with two straight stints as a finalist
  for the Man Booker Prize, Britain's highest literary honor.

  Mitchell's most recent novel, "Cloud Atlas," is one of six finalists for
  the Booker this year, with announcement of the winner only weeks away.
  "Cloud Atlas" is another bravura Mitchell performance, a novel that
  hopscotches over time and terrain and style, defying easy categorizing
  or simple summary....

  http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/books/193199_mitchell01.html



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