Against The Day Review By Publishers Weekly

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I don't know if this constitutes some sort of spoiler, but





















>From the Publisher's Weekly review:

"It all begins in 1893, with an intrepid crew of young balloonists whose storybook adventures will bookend, interrupt and sometimes even be read by, scores of at least somewhat more realistic characters over the next 30 years. Chief among these figures are Colorado anarchist Webb Traverse and his children: Kit, a Yale- and Göttingen-educated mathematician; Frank, an engineer who joins the Mexican revolution; Reef, a cardsharp turned outlaw bomber who lands in a perversely tender ménage à trois; and daughter Lake, another Pynchon heroine with a weakness for the absolute wrong man."

Which ties Against The Day to Vineland, as the Traverses figure in that fine little bagatelle of a book. Looked into Vineland this morning briefly, but will probably scrye the latter half of the book in further search of the Traverse family history.
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From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> note:
> 
> Penguin Press will release Thomas Pynchon's *Against the Day*, his first
> novel since *Mason & Dixon*, early next month. Below is *PW's* review which
> calls the work "knotty, paunchy, nutty, raunchy."
> it says early next month--looks like before the 21st.
> 
> On 10/24/06, Sean Carroll <vollinator at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6384205.html?nid=2286
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