Latest Successor to Pynchon

[David Morris]

I ordered it from Amazon.  I'll report back when I start reading it.

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>