Moody: M&D
jbor at bigpond.com
jbor at bigpond.com
Fri Jul 1 19:11:22 CDT 2005
One of the better reviews (pdf available) of _M&D_:
'Surveyors of the Enlightenment' by Rick Moody. _Atlantic Monthly_
280.1, July 1997, pp. 106-110.
Begins:
"The novelist Robert Coover, speaking of influences in American
fiction, once remarked that appentices of his generation found
themselves (in the 1950s) grappling with two very different models of
what the novel might be. One, Coover said, was Saul Bellow's realistic
if picaresque _Adventures of Augie March_; the other was William
Gaddis's encyclopedic _Recognitions_. Writers my age (mid-thirties),
however, don't have the luxury of a choice. Our problem is how to
confront the influence of a single novelist: Thomas Pynchon. [...]"
Moody seems to be one of the most perceptive and intelligent of
Pynchon's American readers.
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