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| − | '''08/19/13''' - [http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-59420-423-4 '''Publishers Weekly'''] - David Kipen: "Published 50 years ago by long-gone J.B. Lippincott & Co., Thomas Pynchon's ''V.'' wasn't just the best first novel ever, it was a blueprint for his entire career. Much as that book yoyo-ed between an international femme fatale and a feckless contemporary klutz, the Pynchon shelf has alternated between globe-trotting, century-spanning bricks like ''Gravity's Rainbow'' (1973), and impish, only slightly historical, California-set bagatelles like ''Inherent Vice'' (2009). Now comes ''Bleeding Edge | + | '''08/19/13''' - [http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-59420-423-4 '''Publishers Weekly'''] - David Kipen: "Published 50 years ago by long-gone J.B. Lippincott & Co., Thomas Pynchon's ''V.'' wasn't just the best first novel ever, it was a blueprint for his entire career. Much as that book yoyo-ed between an international femme fatale and a feckless contemporary klutz, the Pynchon shelf has alternated between globe-trotting, century-spanning bricks like ''Gravity's Rainbow'' (1973), and impish, only slightly historical, California-set bagatelles like ''Inherent Vice'' (2009). Now comes ''Bleeding Edge'', a lovably scruffy comedy of remarriage, half-hidden behind the lopsided Groucho mask of Pynchon's second straight private-eye story. Like Ornette Coleman's riff on ''The Rite of Spring'', it starts out strong, misplaces the melody amid some delightfully surreal noodling, and finally swans away in sweet, lingering diminuendo." |
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08/19/13 - Publishers Weekly - David Kipen: "Published 50 years ago by long-gone J.B. Lippincott & Co., Thomas Pynchon's V. wasn't just the best first novel ever, it was a blueprint for his entire career. Much as that book yoyo-ed between an international femme fatale and a feckless contemporary klutz, the Pynchon shelf has alternated between globe-trotting, century-spanning bricks like Gravity's Rainbow (1973), and impish, only slightly historical, California-set bagatelles like Inherent Vice (2009). Now comes Bleeding Edge, a lovably scruffy comedy of remarriage, half-hidden behind the lopsided Groucho mask of Pynchon's second straight private-eye story. Like Ornette Coleman's riff on The Rite of Spring, it starts out strong, misplaces the melody amid some delightfully surreal noodling, and finally swans away in sweet, lingering diminuendo."
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