"A variant"

[John Bailey]

That Penguin version's the one I've got. Truly the ugliest cover ever
slapped on a Pynchon novel.

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> Dave:
>
> > I don't recall having seen this one before ...
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/martinisaac/2920413342
>
> I just bought that one a couple of weeks ago. I've been collecting all
> American and British editions of Lot 49 (and GR), and this was the last
> one. An interesting tidbit: Notice that the description on the back cover
> of this edition contains an erroneous reference to:
>
> "Genghis Cohen, who likes sex with the news on"
>
> This is bad enough, but what is even worse is that the American Bantam
> edition from 1980 - with the Echo Courts Motel on its cover - see it here:
>
> http://www.thomaspynchon.com/covers/cl49_cvr.html
>
> - contains exactly the same faulty phrase on its back cover. Apparently
> some lazy
> person at American Bantam copied the description written by some lazy
> person
> at British Penguin.
>
>
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