Love letter to New York that explores a sense of personal violation at 9/11

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Thank you, Dave.

I mostly agree with this review. Especially with the sentiment that "one 
cannot help but see in Bleeding Edge what Salman Rushdie saw in 
Pynchon’s Vineland (1990): 'A major political novel about what America 
has been doing to itself, to its children, all these many years'."

BE seems to be in many ways a close relative of VL, especially with 
regard to its (deep-) political themes but perhaps even more so with 
regard to its focus on family and children. The suggestion later in the 
book that children may be employed by the US-government as 
time-travelling assassins brings together both of these thematic concerns.

Thomas




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