AtD blurb: "self-mockingly breathless catalog copy"?

[jbor at bigpond.com]

Sorry if already posted:

Song of Himself
By Boris Kachka
No one knows how much readers anticipate Thomas Pynchon’s sixth 
novel—his first in nine years—more than Pynchon. You can tell from the 
self-mockingly breathless catalogue copy for Against the Day, which the 
recluse wrote himself. Promising a historical epic even longer than his 
773-page Mason & Dixon, he rattles off a few dozen locales and 
characters but reassures fans that “Meanwhile, the author is up to his 
usual business.”

—Against the Day, By Thomas Pynchon, Penguin Press; November 21 ($35)

http://nymag.com/guides/fallpreview/2006/books/19730/

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