V2

[Mark Kohut]

"the gift of readability" means it ain't "hard" to read. Like the best
journalism.


On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 6:24 AM Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
wrote:

>
> When I hear "the V2s come to life as vividly as any of his human
> characters" this immediately evokes the experience of reading "Gravity's
> Rainbow". Whether Pynchon, however, "has the great gift of readability"
> is an entirely different matter ... Has anybody out there already read
> "V2"?
>
> "Harris finds the poetry in physics and the soul in engineering. He
> makes the V2s come to life as vividly as any of his human characters ...
> Harris has the great gift of readability; there is no living novelist
> whose books I am likelier to gobble up in one sitting." - Jake Kerridge
> (Telegraph)
>
> https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1116208/v2/9781786331403.html
>
> Harris' "Fatherland" was an inspiration for the title of Kracht's debut
> novel "Faserland" (Faser is the German word for "fiber" & it sounds more
> or less exactly like father) from 1995.
>
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