IV reviewed in Publishers Weekly

[Dave Monroe]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Tore Rye Andersen<torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6668314.html?industryid=47141

"Inherent Vice deepens Pynchon’s developing California cycle,
following The Crying of Lot 49 and Vineland with a shaggy-dog epic of
Eden mansionized and Mansonized beyond recognition—yet never quite
beyond hope. Across five decades now, he’s more or less alternated
these West Coast chamber pieces with his more formidable symphonies
(V; Gravity’s Rainbow; Mason & Dixon; Against the Day)...."

This strikes me as a potentially Useful Observation ...