Shubha Ghosh, "Sorting Things Out (On Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge)"

[Krafft, John M.]

It’s here. Nine months after an Internet rumor that gestated into
details ever more elusive and a glimpse of the first couple of
paragraphs, Penguin Press has delivered Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding
Edge, a historical romance about 9/11, the dot com bust, and New York
City. Four hundred and seventy-seven pages spanning the period from
May, 2001, to February, 2002, it’s a Pynchon novel about a time and
place most of his readers will have lived through.  Yet, the events
seem as far away as Malta in 1919 or Peenemunde in the 1940’s. That’s
what Pynchon does best: show us how our memories are made to cast
shadows on the fleeting and evanescent present.
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http://shubhaghosh.net/2013/sorting-things-out-on-pynchons-bleeding-edge/

John