pynchon mention in Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan

James Kyllo jkyllo at gmail.com
Sun Dec 16 03:47:24 CST 2012


That reminds me - been intending to mention, there is a Pynchon mention in
Generosity by Richard Powers.

P. 172  "...he does sleep, on his sofa-pillow bed, deeper than any reason.
 But he dreams himself into a Pynchon novel, with an international cartel
trading in the arcane incunabula hidden in people's cells."

J


On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>wrote:

> The novel is as much about books as it is about spy catching.  On p 224
> we're in the London mansion of Tom Maschler of Jonathan Cape. Maschler is
> pummeling a promising young writer with questions and asks, did he realize
> that the elusive Pynchon had sat in that same chair the day before . . .
>  Time is early seventies.
>
> P
>



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