Speaking of lists...

[Mark Kohut]

THE mass market paperback edition from Avon, rights bought and republished
by Peter mayer, had them rounded corners...more than a million were printed.


--- On Tue, 11/18/08, malignd at aol.com <malignd at aol.com> wrote:

> From: malignd at aol.com <malignd at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: Speaking of lists...
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 5:23 PM
> My recollection is that all the paperback editions of Call
> It Sleep had rounded corners.  Am I remembering correctly?
> 
> I totally loved that book,  yes,  depressing as it was
> probably,  I didn't see it - I was riveted by the
> language, the imagery.  And it was 40+ years ago when I read
> it, too  - when whomever rerelased it, I guess.   I
> wasn't an English major (history) and Call It Sleep was
> probably one of the best novels I'd read  completely on
> my own to that point in my short  life (age 20?)   Thanks
> for the memory. 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bekah <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> To: Lawrence Bryan <lebryan at speakeasy.net>
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Sent: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 8:48 am
> Subject: Re: Speaking of lists...
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> I totally loved that book,  yes,  depressing as it was
> probably,  I didn't see it - I was riveted by the
> language, the imagery.  And it was 40+ years ago when I read
> it, too  - when whomever rerelased it, I guess.   I
> wasn't an English major (history) and Call It Sleep was
> probably one of the best novels I'd read  completely on
> my own to that point in my short  life (age 20?)   Thanks
> for the memory. 
>  
> 
> Bekah 
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> On Nov 18, 2008, at 5:03 AM, Lawrence Bryan wrote: 
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> > I was looking at Henry Roth's novel, Call It
> Sleep, and remembering > how depressing it was. That was
> 40+ years ago when I was in one of > those depressing
> life periods young folks sometimes go through. Was >20it
> really as depressing as I recall? What other good reads
> should > those with suicidal tendencies avoid? 
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> 
> > Lawrence, not yet looking for an excuse to do away
> with himself... 
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