Bleeding Edge

[Antonin Scriabin]

Thanks for the info.  As though my hunger for this book could be greater ...

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 9:59 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> epigraph reminds me of Charles Simic's line about New York being too big
> for only one god and one devil
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> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 6:11 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>    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.
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>> 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.)
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>> Page after title page says Copyright (c) Thomas Pynchon, 2013
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>> 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.)
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>> 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.
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>> ---------Donald E. Westlake
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