Odd question for y'all...

[Mark Kohut]

Just reminding: Pynchon hisself calls it a short story marketed as a novel...and usu @40,000 words plus or less
is called a novella.....



On Sunday, January 5, 2014 4:22 PM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
  
I'm no academic, but Google tells me the answer is 46,573.

http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/PWxyz/2012/03/06/the-average-book-has-64500-words/



On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
> Do any of the academics on this list have any idea about how many
> WORDS are in Crying of Lot 49? The question has come up for a young
> professor friend of mine and he knows I'm a fan, and asked me, and so
> I pose the question to y'all. I don't currently have a copy, otherwise
> I'd do a rough estimate for him myself.
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Mark T. / Jerky LeBoeuf
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