Bleeding Edge

[rich]

epigraph reminds me of Charles Simic's line about New York being too big
for only one god and one devil


On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 6:11 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

>    I have confirmed from someone who helped send out review copies at
> Penguin that
> the black cover that we saw on ebay is the real review copy, proofs, not
> an ARC and semi-glossy as many are.
>
> I asked what else she could tell me. The page of TRPs earlier works begins
> with Slow Learner and is
> then in chronological order of publication (and of course the stories are
> first chronologically.)
>
> Page after title page says Copyright (c) Thomas Pynchon, 2013
>
> Title page has a small picture above the title: like a sci-fi,
> sides-tilted pic of NYC with the Flatiron building knifing/centering the
> pic and dominating it. (I used
> to work in The Flatiron building.)
>
> She read me the epigraph: "New York as a character in a mystery would not
> be the detective, would not be the murderer. It would be the enigmatic
> suspect who knows the real story but is not going to tell it."----Donald
> E. Westlake
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> the murderer. It would be the enigmatic suspect who knows the real story
> but isn't going to tell it.
>
> ---------Donald E. Westlake
>
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