Difficult Books

[Dave Monroe]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 9:27 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can anyone give a Pynchonista's appraisal of Joseph McElroy? He's
> never really made it onto my radar but sounds intriguing. Worth it?

... having been unemployed for two and a half years now, and having
had a copy since the 20th century, I probably should have finished, or
@ least made visible progress in, it, but ...

... but Brian McHale has a whole chapter on it in Constructing
Postmodernism (1993), which is what provoked me to pick it up in the
1st place:

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415060141/

http://estudiosliterariosdos.wikispaces.com/file/view/mchale+Constructing-Postmodernism.pdf

I can vouch 1sthand, however, for J McE's Plus (1977):

http://books.google.com/books/about/Plus.html?id=lFaZPwAACAAJ

... which I learned of from
http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Soft_Machine.html?id=geENAAAAQAAJ
...

The lost postmodernist: Joseph McElroy

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/07/the-lost-postmodernist-joseph-mcelroy.html