pynchon-l-digest V2 #4277

Mark Wright AIA mwaia at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 15 06:26:24 CST 2005


 
> pynchon-l-digest       Tuesday, March 15 2005       Volume 02 :
> Number 4277
> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:26:52 +0000
> From: "Ghetta Life" <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com>
> Subject: THE DEATH OF THE FIRST FICTION

> (snip) A one sentence selling line also helps.
> However, 
> literary fiction often cannot be easily classified or described. Try
> boiling 
> Ulysses or Crime & Punishment down to one sentence.

Howdy
Neither was a first novel but here goes:
"A self-absorbed young teacher touches bottom in a steamy crawl through
red-light Dublin."
"Bad things happen to baad people."
Mark


		
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