Thomas Pynchon, in pastel neon

[David Payne]

On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 (11:13:05 -0700), Robin (robinlandseadel at comcast.net) wrote:

> . . . magenta and green, to be exact:
>
> It only just showed up here so no qualitative judgments quite
> yet, but it's worth taking some time to pause and ogle the cover
> of Thomas Pynchon's forthcoming novel Inherent Vice. It's
> simultaneously as enticing and as off-putting as a book-cover
> could be, like a fever-dream mash-up of an air-brushed Fort
> Lauderdale T-shirt and Jimmy Buffett album art (with a little bit
> of Ghostbusters, by way of the car).
>
> The book's release date is August 4. It's been described as a
> "psychedelic mystery." It's way shorter than Against The Day (a
> spare-for-Pynchon 369 pages). And the cover looks like this...
>
> http://newyork.decider.com/articles/thomas-pynchon-in-pastel-neon,30366/

That is a '59 Cadillac Ambulance, right? Same as Ghost Busters?
 
Here's a slightly different version of the cover:
 
http://sonnetmedia.net/images/uploads/pynchonvice_thumb.png
 
And this looks like the same cover, but the colors are a bit different:
 
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dMHq3XRx0cY/SbXoLe-lanI/AAAAAAAABbU/ySKnB8sxU_0/s400/inherent-vice_cover-final.jpg
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