Difficult Books

[John Bailey]

Thanks Dave!

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Very interesting...
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> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
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>> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 9:27 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Can anyone give a Pynchonista's appraisal of Joseph McElroy? He's
>> > never really made it onto my radar but sounds intriguing. Worth it?
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>> ... 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 ...
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>> ... 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:
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>> http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415060141/
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>> http://estudiosliterariosdos.wikispaces.com/file/view/mchale+Constructing-Postmodernism.pdf
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>> I can vouch 1sthand, however, for J McE's Plus (1977):
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>> http://books.google.com/books/about/Plus.html?id=lFaZPwAACAAJ
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>> ... which I learned of from
>> http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Soft_Machine.html?id=geENAAAAQAAJ
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>> The lost postmodernist: Joseph McElroy
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>> http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/07/the-lost-postmodernist-joseph-mcelroy.html
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