pynchon mention in Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan

[Markekohut]

I haven't read a word of this novel, nor even  a whole review--just headlines---but now you have me fascinated.....mcEwan doing a portrait of himself at his modal turn?....as you present it, somehow like inherent Vice in some thematic way?

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On Dec 16, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:

> 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.
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> 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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