Graffiti Palace

[Erik T. Burns]

The plot finds a black schlemiel hero, the hapless Americo Monk, zigzagging
homeward across a riot-ravaged hellscape toward a party thrown by his
suitor-besieged girlfriend. Lombardo lifts Pynchon’s hitherto inimitable
syntax practically wholesale, from the hyperventilating sentences to the
hepcat grammar. It turns out that two crutches are better than
one—Lombardo’s twin debts to Homer and Pynchon ironically propel him out of
their shadows and into a budding second career.

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