Pynchon's new book

[Matthew Ryan]

Yeah, that's fiction.

On 6/22/06, Clement Levy <cl.levy at free.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi dear fellows,
> did you remember that?
> (on the Pomona College Pynchon Page, as a report by "B.M.W. Schrapnel"
> of her third "sighting" of Thomas Pynchon)
> URL: http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/bio/adventures.html
>
> […] We drank and talked for another half hour, though, ate an order of
> chips and salsa, and he added that his next novel will be, well,
> "neo-gothic." Set in an American subtropical region that is over run by
> retirees from the Midwest and New York, the book's themes are greed,
> solipsism, and anti-environmentalism, with a dash of Armageddon.
> Destruction, death and gore abound. The heroes are aliens from a
> distant galaxy. These extraterrestrials are more plant than animal, and
> therefore appalled at how life has evolved on earth. You may guess the
> rest. […]
>
> Shall we infer that the New Novel should set the scene in Florida?
> Maybe this page has been online for a long long time, the copyright
> reads 1995-1997. Can you remember when you read it for the first time?
> Anyway, it looks like a hoax! don't you think so?
>
> Clément Lévy
>
>
>
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