Latest Successor to Pynchon

[Dave Monroe]

On 5/16/08, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Interestingly, the cover has a big "49" on it.
>
> http://us.macmillan.com/atmosphericdisturbances
>
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Dave Monroe
> <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Rivka Galchen, M.D. from Oklahoma Is the Latest Successor to Pynchon
> >
> > Author of the stirring debut novel Atmospheric Disturbances raised by
> > mom and pop scientists, watched over by Beckett
> >
> > by Leon Neyfakh  |  May 13, 2008 ...
> >
> > http://www.observer.com/2008/rivka-galchen-m-d-oklahoma-latest-successor-pynchon

The serpentine plot of "Atmospheric Disturbances" has drawn
comparisons to the work of Thomas Pynchon and Jorge Luis Borges. Ms.
Galchen's narrator, Dr. Leo Liebenstein, meets a patient who is
convinced that he receives secret missions to control the weather via
Page Six in the New York Post. The patient draws Leo into the supposed
interdimensional workings of a secretive group called "the 49 Quantum
Fathers." Meanwhile, Leo is convinced that his wife has been replaced
with a double, and his quest for answers takes him from New York to
Argentina. Ms. Galchen's descriptions of mathematical ideas and
meteorological models are coupled with an emotional tale about
loss....

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121157790233218345.html