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

[Mark Thibodeau]

You're right. Those are mostly from Zero K reviews. I remember the Dayglo
reference vividly (no pun intended).

Jerky

On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 8:05 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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