Title, Blurb in NY Times

[Paul Mackin]

On Jul 22, 2006, at 12:01 PM, Bruce Appelbaum wrote:

> Pynchon's Latest Coming in December
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> Thomas Pynchon's first book in nine years will be published in  
> December, and booksellers are already taking advance orders. A  
> spokeswoman for Mr. Pynchon's publisher, Penguin Press, confirmed  
> that the novel, set at the turn of the 20th century, will be titled  
> "Against the Day" and will go on sale on Dec. 5. And true to  
> Pynchon form, it will be a fat one: more than 900 pages in manuscript.

More than 900 page in manuscript?  That'd be a horse of a completely  
different color.


> A description from the publisher's catalog - written by Mr. Pynchon  
> - has been posted on Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com. It reads:  
> "Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and  
> the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor  
> troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and  
> Göttingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at  
> the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the  
> Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood and one or two  
> places not strictly speaking on the map at all." Mr. Pynchon's last  
> book was "Mason & Dixon," published in 1997.
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> Regards
>
> Bruce Appelbaum
>
> In the land of the blind,
> the one-eyed man can
> turn off the lights.
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