First I'm hearing of THIS great news! (NP)

[Mark Kohut]

The deception of publishers. I am pretty sure NONE of these review snippets
are about this book. The first two seem general enough (about his work in
general) that they can get by.
The last two seem to be about this book and they are not, I do not think.
Both reviewers review and that is where their blurbs come from.

Elsewhere DiLillo says this novel was occasioned by a quiet
Manhattan.......just like the still Manhattan after 9/11 that Pynchon
caught in Bleeding Edge. Think that helped inspire Don?

“Mysterious...Unexpectedly touching...[DeLillo offers] consolation simply
by enacting so well the mystery and awe of the real world.”* —Joshua
Ferris, The New York Times Book Review *

“DeLillo [has] almost Dayglo powers as a writer.” —*Michiko Kakutani, The
New York Times*

“Brilliant and astonishing…a masterpiece…manages to renew DeLillo’s
longstanding obsessions while also striking deeply and swiftly at the
reader’s emotions…The effect is transcendent.” *—Charles Finch, Chicago
Tribune*

“Daring... provocative... exquisite...captures the swelling fears of our
age.”
*—Ron Charles, The Washington Post*

On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 6:39 PM Keith McMullen via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53879554-the-silence
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