That Locke Review of GR

[Jochen Stremmel]

http://www.unz.org/Pub/SaturdayRev-1973mar03-00059

2017-04-15 18:20 GMT+02:00 Douglas Holm <dkholm at mac.com>:

> I think Richard Porior (SP?) 's review in Saturday Review was also a big
> help.  That's where I first heard of the novel.  Still have the review in a
> file folder somewhere.
>
> > On Apr 15, 2017, at 3:26 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Besides Pynchon's steadily growing " underground" (cultish) reputation
> at the time, this review
> > Probably did most to make Gravity's Rainbow the literal NYT bestseller
> it became, I dare to guess-remember and connect.
> >
> > Factually, I think he may have been wrong about the sales of THE CRYING
> OF LOT 49, Which I once learned were outstanding and steady and building in
> paperback. ( didn't happen in hardcover). But even if I remember truly, I
> don't know the timeline with surety and those outstandingly noticeable
> sales might not have been that until after GR was published. Many readers
> tried discovering TRP first with that book, no surprise.
> >
> > You want another intellectual treat? Look up Locke's NYT review of
> TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY. In which Pynchon is name-checked.
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> >> On Apr 15, 2017, at 5:50 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> What a magnificent review. Especially given it was written
> >> pre-internet, and that the critic displays a deep familiarity with
> >> Pynchon's previous work. Things to disagree with, but a long way from
> >> today's hot take published ten minutes before the book is released.
> >>
> >>> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 11:18 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-rainbow.html
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