NP, exactly - One for Jack Green

[rich]

this is the problem paragraph:

"Michiko Kakutani in the study with the fountain pen that killed the...
oh wait sorry. Scratch that. Michiko did write the above glowing
criticism but it was back in 1987 for a different book by the same
author, the publisher just decided to put it on the back of the then
new book. Oh, what book you ask? Well the Michiko blurb was put on the
dust cover of Robert Coover's 1991 "Pinocchio in Venice".
*You say you haven't read it. Well, you can probably live without it.*
Anthony
Burgess gave it a fair but not glowing review. But let's see how they
stand up to the test of time. One way to do that is by checking
Nielson numbers or something like that. I use Amazon numbers since
they are easy to get.
 Today Vineland is at #89,153.  Pinocchio in Venice is at #750,363; &
it never got on the NYT BSL."

smacks of Jonathan Lethem telling readers no need to read anything by
Gaddis after The Recognitions in his New Yorker put-down a few years back.
maybe just choice of words

fwiw, Coover's parody of Blood Meridian in his recent opus The Brunist Day
of Wrath where a motorcycle club terrorizes a town is quite memorable,
though marred somewhat by the epilogue which I didnt like, the energy of
his writing is noteworthy too for an old guy

rich







On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Heikki R <
situations.journeys.comedy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Matthew writes:
> "But let's see how they stand up to the test of time. One way to do that
> is by checking
> Nielson numbers or something like that. I use Amazon numbers since they
> are easy to get.
> Today Vineland is at #89,153.  Pinocchio in Venice is at #750,363; & it
> never got on the NYT BSL."
>
>
> A 1994 book by Jack Green's darling is at #549,880 in Amazon, and never
> made it to the NYT BSL
> as far as I know. And yet, to me, A Frolic of His Own has stood up the
> test of time better than VL.
>
>
>
>
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