The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

[James Kyllo]

Just in case anybody else is looking for themselves - it's page 31, but the
font looks very much like 51


On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 8:31 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> Finally started reading this, and I'm enjoying it so far, but I was really
> thrown on p. 51 by the temperature of the freezing river water: 22.2
> Celsius. It was hard to see how this could be a typo. I thought at first
> that maybe it was some sort of cute bit of magical realism, along some sort
> of "and why the sea is boiling hot" riff. But then a couple of pages later,
> he actually spells it out: Twenty-two degrees Celsius. Then later, 8
> Celsius is considered too cold to be out with gloves and a hat.
> I'm reading the Picador 2001 edition, so he ought to have had time to
> catch the error. I'm just really surprised that any writer could make such
> an obvious error, and that it wasn't immediately caught and corrected by
> his editors. Or maybe there's some weird po-mo payoff later in the book?
> Mr. Kohut, any theories?
>
> Laura
>



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