Fwd: eGad: Re: Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice

Tue Nov 25 16:28:19 CST 2008

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From: Steven Moore <mooresteven at att.net>
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Subject: eGad: Re: Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice

Gaddis fans will recognize the term "inherent vice" 
from The Recognitions, where it is first used in its art sense--the 
tendency for paintings to detioriate if made from inferior materials--and then 
as a metaphor for character flaws: Basil Valentine mumbles the phrase on his 
deathbed in Hungary.

One tidbit I can add via my Penguin Press 
mole: Pynchon was asked to narrate the audio version of his new book, actually 
thought about it for a few days, but decided not to.

----- Original Message ----- 

From: 
  Dave 
  Monroe 

To: gaddis-l at yahoogroups.com 

Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 3:14 
  PM

Subject: eGad: Thomas Pynchon, Inherent 
  Vice

   It's been awhile since Doc Sportello has seen his 
        ex-girlfriend.  Suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a story 
        about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just 
        happens to be in love with. Easy for her to say. It's the tail end of 
        the psychedelic sixties in L.A., and Doc 
knows that "love" is another of 
        those words going around at the moment, like "trip" or "groovy," except 
        that this one usually leads to trouble. Despite which he soon finds 
        himself drawn into a bizarre tangle of motives and passions whose cast 
        of characters includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a 
        murderous loan shark, a tenor sax player working undercover, an ex-con 
        with a swastika tattoo and a fondness for Ethel Merman, and a mysterious 
        entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set 
        up
by some dentists. 

In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed 
        genre, provides a classic illustration of the principle that if you can 
        remember the sixties, you weren't there . . . or . . . if you were 
        there, then you . . . or, wait, is it . . .

http://booksellers.dk.com/static/pdf/penguinpress-summer09.pdf

New Pynchon Details--Inherent Vice

Penguin has posted its Summer '09 catalog online (PDF format), 
        and it
includes some details as to Pynchon's new novel.

http://www.conversationalreading.com/2008/11/new-pynchon-det.html
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Publisher Penguin's catalog reveals details about the upcoming book 
        by
Thomas Pynchon. As previously reported, it will be a detective 
        novel
hitting shelves next summer; the news is the title, "Inherent 
        Vice."
And details about the plot:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2008/11/thomas-pynchons.html

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