pynchon mention in Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan

[Paul Mackin]

On 12/16/2012 7:19 AM, Markekohut wrote:
> McEwan's early work, 70's, is much closer to TRP's than later. In this country, some of it appeared in the lauded New American Review.

A young McEwan and his earlier work is obliquely alluded to in this 
latest novel.  The male lead in Sweet Tooth, Tom Haley, seems to be much 
like McEwan was, writes with that postmodern malaise of the 
post-sixties. Martin Amis also appears briefly in the book.  I'm only 
two-thirds through but kind of think the modal change the author has 
undergone may be part of the point of this novel.  But I must wait and 
see.  And also we don't want to lose sight of the fact that book also 
involves an MI5 caper.

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> I know of a lunch TRP was quietly at, w Faith Sale, that'd included an editor of that mag and another writer-editor ( of lit mag), Jerome Charyn.
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> Circumstantial evidence now suggests their friendship probably started around then, or earlier?
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> On Dec 15, 2012, at 8:00 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
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>> 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.
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