IVIV book review: The National

[Doug Millison]

http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090911/REVIEW/709109978/1007

Besides, the counterforce Pynchon has in mind is something more like  
gravity: kindness. Sure, backs are stabbed and guns are fired and PI’s  
get cold-cocked. But in the cracks of these mean streets, like blades  
of grass, there also sprout these tiny human gestures, “too precious  
to accept, being too easy, for Doc anyway, to abuse, which he was  
bound to”; the only things Doc’s come across that defy monetary value,  
and the best reasons he has to hope that maybe not everything in this  
world is property. In fiction’s nastiest genre, Pynchon has written  
his nicest book.