NOT The Crying of Lot 49; from a Quill & Quire review

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 5 10:12:16 CST 2010


In publicity materials for the book, Moore describes Wrong Bar as Brighton Rock for the Twitter age. The novel’s dense symbolic order, paranoiac overtones, and ominous acronyms also make significant nods to The Crying of Lot 49. Wrong Bar demands the same attentiveness as Pynchon’s postmodern classic, but does not deliver the same rewards.




      



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