Another CL49 'sighting' ...

Paul Nightingale isread at btinternet.com
Sun Aug 19 02:26:28 CDT 2007


... within a review of Gibson's Spook Country.

A woman moves through a forest of symbols, peopled by liminal obsessives,
gathering clues to a conspiratorial mystery. So might you describe Thomas
Pynchon's diabolically lean and funny The Crying of Lot 49, perhaps the most
perfect American novel of its age. Fitting the same description is the new
novel by William Gibson, whose own literary trajectory has seen him develop
from noir prophet of cyberspace (the word he coined in Neuromancer, 1984) to
a kind of wi-fi'd Pynchon for the present.

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2150860,00.html






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