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A precious freak of a novel, glinting rich and strange, like a black pearl from an oyster unfathomable by any other diver into our eternal souls. If not here at the end of history, when? If not Pynchon, who? Reading "Bleeding Edge," tearing up at the beauty of its sadness or the punches of its hilarity, you may realize it as the 9/11 novel you never knew you needed a necessary novel and one that literary history has been waiting for, ever since it went to bed early on innocent Sept. 10 with a copy of "The Corrections" and stayed up well past midnight reading Franzen into the wee hours of his novel s publication day. Slate.com
Are you ready for Thomas (Screaming Comes Across the Sky) Pynchon on the subject of September 11, 2001?... Exemplary dazzling and ludicrous Our reward for surrendering expectations that a novel should gather in clarity, rather than disperse into molecules, isn t anomie but delight. Pynchon himself s a good companion, full of real affection for his people and places, even as he lampoons them for suffering the postmodern condition of being only partly real. Jonathan Lethem, "New York Times Book Review"
Surely now Pynchon must be in line for the Nobel Prize?... Thomas Pynchon, America s greatest novelist, has written the greatest novel about the most significant events in his country s 21st century history. It is unequivocally a masterpiece. "The Scotsman" (UK)
The book s real accomplishment is to claim the last decade as Pynchon territory, a continuation of the same tensions between freedom and captivity, momentum and entropy, meaning and chaos through which he has framed the last half-century As usual, Pynchon doesn t provide answers but teases us with the hint of closure, leaving us ultimately unsure whether the signals add up to a master plot or merely a series of sinister and unfortunate events. The overall effect is one of amused frustration, of dying to find that one extra piece of information that will help make sense of this overwhelming and vaguely threatening world. It feels a lot like life. "Wired "magazine
The New York of late 2001 was a Pynchon novel waiting to happen, in which the failures of late capitalist speculation, in the form of the recently deflated tech bubble, meet 9/11 to form the 21st century s Year Zero. "New York Observer"
Pynchon's prose is irresistible. It's playful and bustling cheesy puns rub elbows with Big Ideas. A- "Entertainment Weekly"
Brilliant and wonderful "Bleeding Edge" chronicles the birth of the now our terrorism-obsessed, NSA-everywhere, smartphone Panopticon zeitgeist in the crash of the towers. It connects the dots, the packets, the pixels. We are all part of this story. We are all characters in Pynchon s mad world. "Bleeding Edge" is a novel about geeks, the Internet, New York and 9/11. It is funny, sad, paranoid and lyrical. It was difficult to put down. I want to read it again. Salon.com
" Bleeding Edge" takes the messy, funny, and sad all-at-once world we live in and reflects it back to us in a way that I can only call consoling somebody else out there gets it. No matter how crazy things became in this book, I felt safe as long as I was inside its pages. So of course as soon as I finished it, I started over again. Malcolm Jones, Daily Beast"/Newsweek
" "Bleeding Edge" may be the book Thomas Pynchon was born to write. "New York Daily News, " Page Views
The ingeniously whimsical, accessible story of a New York City fraud investigator who becomes entangled with some very sketchy characters as she tries to get to the bottom of a case involving a tech billionaire. " O: The Oprah Magazine"
Showstopping The future that [Pynchon] so precociously, disturbingly foresaw long ago now surges around us. With "Bleeding Edge, " he shows that he has mastered the move from the shock of the new to the shock of the now, while cushioning the blow. Leisl Schillinger, Barnes & Noble
" Bleeding Edge" is vintage Pynchon, a louche yarn of rollicking doomism. Pynchon is the master of technology-as-metaphor. In previous books particularly V. and Gravity s Rainbow there is a persistent, shadowy suggestion of an unseen system, mechanisms that underlie the perceived reality of events. And these mechanisms are often manifest in the vagaries of things like rocket science and radio broadcasting tools. In those old books, however, the obscure schema was cast as an almost magical or mystical force, but as "Bleeding Edge"appears, we have the real thing. "Seattle Times"
Fabulously entertaining "Bleeding Edge" is stuffed with gorgeous passages that sing their longing for all we ve lost, in trashing the land and ourselves. But such writing is also a stirring call to arms, making clear that the history we ll make depends on what and how we remember. As Pynchon has been reminding us for 50 years, there s always more than one way to tell that story. "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"
Pynchon s "Bleeding Edge" is a masterpiece of post- and pre-9/11paranoia. "Las Vegas Weekly"
"A hilarious, shrewd, and disquieting metaphysical mystery." "Booklist" (STARRED)
"No one, but no one, rivals Pynchon s range of language, his elasticity of syntax, his signature mix of dirty jokes, dread and shining decency "Bleeding Edge" is a chamber symphony in P major, so generous of invention it sometimes sprawls, yet so sharp it ultimately pierces. "Publishers Weekly"
"A much-anticipated return, and it s trademark stuff: a blend of existential angst, goofy humor and broad-sweeping bad vibes." "Kirkus Reviews" (STARRED)
"Truly your most important reading for the fall... darkly hilarious." "Library Journal"
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***A New York Times Notable Book of 2013***
"A precious freak of a novel, glinting rich and strange, like a black pearl from an oyster unfathomable by any other diver into our eternal souls. If not here at the end of history, when? If not Pynchon, who? Reading Bleeding Edge, tearing up at the beauty of its sadness or the punches of its hilarity, you may realize it as the 9/11 novel you never knew you needed... a necessary novel and one that literary history has been waiting for, ever since it went to bed early on innocent Sept. 10 with a copy of The Corrections and stayed up well past midnight reading Franzen into the wee hours of his novel's publication day." --Slate.com
"Are you ready for Thomas (Screaming Comes Across the Sky) Pynchon on the subject of September 11, 2001?... Exemplary... dazzling and ludicrous... Our reward for surrendering expectations that a novel should gather in clarity, rather than disperse into molecules, isn't anomie but delight. Pynchon himself's a good companion, full of real affection for his people and places, even as he lampoons them for suffering the postmodern condition of being only partly real." --Jonathan Lethem, New York Times Book Review
"Surely now Pynchon must be in line for the Nobel Prize?... Thomas Pynchon, America's greatest novelist, has written the greatest novel about the most significant events in his country's 21st century history. It is unequivocally a masterpiece." --The Scotsman (UK)
"The book's real accomplishment is to claim the last decade as Pynchon territory, a continuation of the same tensions -- between freedom and captivity, momentum and entropy, meaning and chaos -- through which he has framed the last half-century... As usual, Pynchon doesn't provide answers but teases us with the hint of closure, leaving us ultimately unsure whether the signals add up to a master plot or merely a series of sinister and unfortunate events. The overall effect is one of amused frustration, of dying to find that one extra piece of information that will help make sense of this overwhelming and vaguely threatening world. It feels a lot like life." --Wired magazine
"The New York of late 2001 was a Pynchon novel waiting to happen, in which the failures of 'late capitalist' speculation, in the form of the recently deflated tech bubble, meet 9/11 to form the 21st century's Year Zero." --New York Observer
"Bleeding Edge takes the messy, funny, and sad all-at-once world we live in and reflects it back to us in a way that I can only call consoling--somebody else out there gets it. No matter how crazy things became in this book, I felt safe as long as I was inside its pages. So of course as soon as I finished it, I started over again." --Malcolm Jones, Daily Beast/Newsweek
"No one, but no one, rivals Pynchon's range of language, his elasticity of syntax, his signature mix of dirty jokes, dread and shining decency... Bleeding Edge is a chamber symphony in P major, so generous of invention it sometimes sprawls, yet so sharp it ultimately pierces." --Publishers Weekly
"A much-anticipated return, and it's trademark stuff: a blend of existential angst, goofy humor and broad-sweeping bad vibes." --Kirkus Reviews (STARRED)
"Truly your most important reading for the fall... darkly hilarious." --Library Journal
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