Fwd: older book Herrndorf's "Sand"

[Mark Kohut]

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> From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> Date: December 9, 2018 at 12:07:31 PM EST
> To: Richard Ryan <richardonriver at outlook.com>
> Subject: Re: older book Herrndorf's "Sand"
> 
> O I'll be reading it alright. Starting day after Xmas. 
> Other stuff to finish first. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Dec 9, 2018, at 11:55 AM, Richard Ryan <richardonriver at outlook.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Perhaps if you plunge in, Mark, other penguins will follow.  On the subject of Herrndorf’s Sand - I note that Wikipedia only has a stub about it.  Here’s someone’s chance to craft of small piece of Wikipedia’s contemporary world fiction domain.
>> From: Pynchon-l <pynchon-l-bounces at waste.org> on behalf of Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2018 1:12:14 PM
>> To: Thomas Eckhardt
>> Cc: pynchon -l
>> Subject: Re: older book Herrndorf's "Sand"
>>  
>> What I would like to know, self-interestedly and self-mergingly, is who
>> wants to read ANNIVERSARIES with me?
>> 
>> On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 5:03 PM Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> > I love "Sand" and wonder how "Schamott" in the final, devastating sentence
>> > was translated into English.
>> > Herrndorf's breakthrough was "Tschick" ('Why We Took the Car') which is
>> > very
>> > different but also highly recommended. He was also a very accomplished
>> > painter.
>> >
>> > "Sand" was at least partly written while Herrndorf was suffering from
>> > brain
>> > cancer (he eventually committed suicide; his by turns harrowing,
>> > fascinating, funny, sad and very literary diary/blog "Arbeit und Struktur"
>> > has been published as a book and is still online).
>> >
>> > On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 13:52:00 -0500
>> >   Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>> > > Any body else read or have thoughts on Herrndorf’s Sand?
>> > >Moves like GR from comic to grim dark but beautifully
>> > >crafted and upsettingy realistic.
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