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Private eye Doc Sportello's ex-old lady shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be in love with, and a plot by his wife and her boyfriend to kidnap that billionaire and throw him in a loony bin.
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This volume provides instruction in how to read Thomas Pynchon--how to identify his material, themes, use of language, point of view, structure, symbolism, and responses to experience. Newman examines Pynchon's short fiction and presents close readings of his three novels. He reviews recent criticism, tracks the complex, fluid states of Pynchon's fiction, and establishes the place of individual works in the canon. He also discusses the methods of...
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Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 607
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When in 1989 Thomas Pynchon came out with his fourth novel after a 17-year hiatus from publishing, it was perhaps not without a hint of irony that the New York Times Book Review turned to Salman Rushdie for commentary. Here was an author forced into exile (literally to save his life) reviewing the work of one who has chosen his own exile (perhaps to guard his gift) - a man who has studiously avoided interviews and about whom little is known. The horrific...
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