Thomas Pynchon, historical novelist

[Bekah]

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/10/15/121015fa_fact_macfarquhar?currentPage=all

The 2 Wolf Hall books so far are extraordinary -  the article Mark referred to is linked above -  excellent article.   I've read A Place of Greater Safety and I was disappointed - I wanted more revolution,  fewer domestic tangles.   Bring Up the Bodies  (Wolf Hall series #2)  could NOT be more historical without being nonfiction.   

Bekah



On Oct 8, 2012, at 9:25 AM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> In a terrif long piece on Hilary Mantel, another writer whom I have not read--how is everyone so well-read?,I crawl through good novels like I'm learning how to read just then---the story of her trying to get her first historical novel bought by a publisher, about none of which wanted such---
> mentions that Pynchon had recently had an " historical novel" published, that novel---V. ---I never really thought of as one until.....I became old enough to have a history myself.
> 
> Sent from my iPad