[Dave Monroe]

I picked it up in the week or so before Christmas of
1989, had to dash out of teh bar where somoebody told
me it was on the shelves and get to the only bookshop
still open at that hour here back in the day ...

--- Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi> wrote:
> 
> On the other hand, the publication of Vineland "in
> February 1990" was first announced in Bookworld on
> March 12, 1989.  See p. 145 in Pynchon Notes 20-21,
> www2.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm/pn/pn020.pdf
> The book did finally come out at the turn of 1990
> already (I got it by snail mail around Jan 25 from
> a friend visiting the U of Colorado) but still, that
> makes over 9 months...

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