Another way to categorize TRPs oeuvre

Joe Allonby joeallonby at gmail.com
Thu Oct 2 14:23:12 CDT 2008


Mason & Dixon involve two citizens of Great Britain and is partially set in
South Africa and the Pacific. Wouldn't that also be World History?

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The World History novels. A trilogy.
> "V."
> "Gravity's Rainbow"
> "Against the Day"
>
> The contemorary (or recent past) American novels
>
> --  "C of Lot 49"
> ----"Vineland"
> ----new one
>
> The historical American novel
> ---Mason & Dixon
>
> If we believe, as I do from external info, that TRP was working on ATD
> for a long time---since finishing GR, maybe---then he has alternated,
> roughly, the World Historical novels with the American novels.
>
>
>
>
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