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

[Mark Kohut]

great line from the review: "that these half-remembered pieces of the past are what our present days are made of."
THIS is the substantive texture of the sit-com prose; THIS is the insight that those who diss the writing have to .....explain away.......I am no longer around NYC except occasionally and yet, the way of communication was
like it then in analgous ways...
and is elsewhere now, even Pittsburgh.......
we all talk and see as they do in the book. 
 
Yes also to Rushdie's remark on VIneland, The comparison structured my early hosting. This book is much more "political' than we have yet accented....maybe...
 
yes to NY love----but he also hates it in this book. See the descriptions; the financial and other crime might happen only here or London, I say.
 
Mark



On Saturday, November 9, 2013 3:16 PM, Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
  
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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