IV reviewed in Publishers Weekly

[rich]

what about this quip:

"But there’s a blissful, sportive magnanimity, too, a forgiveness
vouchsafed to pimps, vets, cops, narcs and even developers that feels
new, or newly heartfelt."

the anti-James Ellroy (not a bad thing)

rich

On 7/6/09, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Some of it may be useful, but a few quibbles:
>
> 1.  AtD may be more formidable, but it hardly fits into a West vs East Coast
> logic.  If we were to find a third East Coast member, it would have to be V.
>
> 2.  "Shaggy Dog" and "chamber piece" aren't usually uttered in the same
> sentence.  Indeed, the sparse arrangement of a chamber piece is less likely
> to be shaggy dog than a symphony.
>
> If there is validity int thinking about a "California cycle" it probably has
> more to do with a shorter, more accessible format.
>
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Dave Monroe
> <against.the.dave at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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 ...
>>
>>
>