Female Pynchons?

[bekah]

Yes,  "The Last Samurai" was a pretty good book,  multi-layered, 
thick and  well-written but I think it could have stood some serious 
editing.   I'd compare it to Safran's "Extremely  Loud and Incredibly 
Close" without the sentimentality and humor.     In both books a 
highly intelligent male child is seeking his father.

Bekah


At 11:33 AM -0400 10/8/06, Paul Di Filippo wrote:
>As I recall, Helen DeWitt's THE LAST SAMURAI provoked a lot of 
>Pynchon comparisons.  Googling her name with TRP's, I encountered 
>this survey  of literature's shining lights:
>
>http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/0403/ijse/birkerts.htm
>
>Here's the NYT take on LAST SAMURAI:
>
>http://partners.nytimes.com/books/00/10/15/reviews/001015.15goldbet.html