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[Paul Mackin]

On Jul 21, 2006, at 7:37 PM, Ya Sam wrote:

> What really pisses me off about the latest GR is that they call it  
> 'deluxe' and still reissue it as a paperback. I think TRP has  
> deserved a hardcover edition for his 70th anniversary, not to  
> mention the fact that GR's place is in Everyman's Library. Recently  
> 'The Name of the Rose" made it to Everyman's, so what's detaining  
> them from including one of (I would say THE) most important works  
> of the 2nd half of the 20th lit in their canon?!



Has it occurred to anyone that Pynchon might actually prefer seeing  
his books paperbound? Part of his feelings for the little guy sort of  
personality.  I noticed something curious, though probably  
meaningless, the  other day.  The March 23, 1973,  review of  
Gravity's Rainbow by Michael Wood the The New York Review of Books  
lists ONLY the paperbound version  in the heading.
.
                         Viking, 760 pp., $4.95 (paper)

Then I was reminded that when I  had dropped into my local bookstore  
on publication day only the paperbound version was yet available.

Maybe Gravity's Rainbow is doomed to be just of regular book for  
ordinary folks.


>
>> From: "richard baillie" <richbaillie at fastmail.fm>
>> To: "Joe Allonby" <joeallonby at gmail.com>, "rich"  
>> <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
>> CC: "Pynchon-L" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Subject: cover
>> Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 00:20:50 +0100
>>
>> AD or ATD i hope it's got a nice dustjacket
>>
>> TRP has been poorly served by designers over the years and the  
>> latest GR
>> reissue doesn't really capture the essence of the novel in any way at
>> all
>>
>> anyone else got a favorite?
>> --
>>   richard baillie
>>   richbaillie at fastmail.fm
>>
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