Inherent Vice review in Village Voice
Robin Landseadel
robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Tue Aug 4 19:54:45 CDT 2009
I don't know if I've already posted this, 'but Zach Baron's on "our"
side, I believe . . .'
It got the best review Illustration.
Like Vineland's Zoyd Wheeler (with whom Doc's cousin once
played in a band), Doc is eventually forced to discover that though
love itself endures, free-love most definitely does not. Already
there's the prospect, in the high, 1970 summer of both Willis Reed
and Charles Manson, that "a certain hand might reach terribly out
of darkness and reclaim the time, easy as taking a joint from a
doper and stubbing it out for good." Which, if you know the rest of
the sad, Nixonite story, is exactly what ended up happening.
Bummer, man.
http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-08-04/books/surf-noir-thomas-pynchon-s-inherent-vice/2
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