Inherent Vice review from the BBC

[Robin Landseadel]

	Is this Thomas Pynchon's "late style"?
	Paul Mason

	"Congratulations, hippie scum", Bigfoot greeted Doc in his all-
	too-familiar 30-weight voice. "And welcome to a world of
	inconvenience. Yes, this time it appears you have finally
	managed to stumble into something too real and too deep to
	hallucinate your worthless hippie ass out of."

	This is the sound of Thomas Pynchon doing detective fiction,
	noir as a packet of Rizla Black cigarrette papers. Pynchon has
	done pastiche and parody before - swathes of it in Against the
	Day, a novel of anarchism and ballooning. But this time it is for
	real: the old genre buster, master of digression and unfilmable
	plotlines, has produced a genuine piece of crossover
	commercial fiction. . .

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