"A variant"

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

The error is also repeated in the 1979 Picador pbk edition.
Hate that cover too:
http://maelstrom.ocnk.net/zoom/2589


Heikki

On Fri, 29 May 2009, John Bailey wrote:

> 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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