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Accessibility's Rainbow: Thomas Pynchon's 'Inherent Vice'new
A mere three years after the infamously reclusive author released Against the Day, a 1,000-plus-page world’s fair of themes, characters and pastiched genres, Pynchon may have thrown us his strangest curveball yet by delivering a novel that is accessible, readable, and relatively short: that is, rather un-Pynchonesque.
Tags: Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon
In 'Inherent Vice,' a Dope-Buzzed PI Watches the '70s California Dream Unravelnew
In his zany new novel, Thomas Pynchon goes back to the Golden State to paint a nostalgic portrait of a fictional beach town near LA in the '70s -- when the counterculture finally lost the battle to the forces of control, governmental power and sobriety.
Las Vegas Weekly |
John Freeman |
08-27-2009 |
Fiction
Thomas Pynchon's 'Inherent Vice' is an Endlessly Entertaining Variation on the Detective Yarnnew
Unlike any previous Pynchon work, Vice fully embraces genre. And in doing so it's difficult to tell if the genre is merely pliable enough to accommodate all of Pynchon's literary whims or if the now 72-year-old author has basically been riffing on this form his entire career.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
08-25-2009 |
Fiction
Literary Diarrheanew
To call reading this book a waste of time is almost an insult to activities like picking your toes and staring at the wall.
Dig Boston |
Luke O'Neil |
01-03-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon
Into the Light of 'Day'new
At the start of one century, Pynchon's latest novel illuminates the dawn of the last.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Anthony Miller |
12-15-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon
Around the World in 1,085 Pagesnew
Round one with Pynchon's longest and busiest novel.
Chicago Reader |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
12-04-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon
