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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