played the P-list like a violin...

[Tim Strzechowski]

Has anyone looked back to see exactly how long that book description might 
have been up before it was taken down?



>
> Intriguing that the Penguin press person apparently
> denied knowing anything about that Book Description
> being posted to the book's page at Amazon -   I'm
> prepared to be proven wrong, but I believe this (the
> denial - or maybe she simply didn't know what somebody
> else in the campaign is doing) to be just part of an
> online promotional campaign designed to keep word of
> mouth buzzing, some of the younger folks at the book
> publishers are quite hip to so-called "viral"
> marketing strategies and how to stimulate online
> communities like Pynchon-l, the lit-bloggers, etc.
>