English edition of AtD

[pynchonoid]

--- Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Amazon.co.uk finally has a picture of the English
> edition of AtD. The cover 
> is practically the same - it doesn't have the 'torn'
> corners of the American 
> edition, though. The mysterious red seal also seems
> a bit clearer on the 
> picture of the English edition.


Too bad. It doesn't seem to be a marijuana leaf.
Does seem to be a bird in there, though, maybe.

 See for yourselves:
> 
>
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Against-Day-Thomas-Pynchon/dp/0224080954/sr=8-2/qid=1160556307/ref=sr_1_2/026-1772774-2484453?ie=UTF8&s=books
> 
> As with most of Pynchon's novels - Vineland being
> the only exception - 
> Jonathan Cape is the publisher. Note, by the way,
> that the English version 
> is only 960 pages long. I seriously doubt that Cape
> cut 160 pages from the 
> novel (or perhaps they wanted to get back at the
> Americans for cutting 
> Lawrence Norfolk's Lemprière's Dictionary so
> ruthlessly?), so I guess that 
> the English readers can prepare themselves for
> severe eyestrain.
> Hmmm - should I go for the American edition and
> strained armmuscles or the 
> English edition and strained eyes? Heck, I'll go for
> BOTH!
> 
> 

If the text is different - less of it, or edited to
conform to British English - I'll buy the British
edition, too, to satisfy the completionist in me.



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