Pynchonheads, This Ones for Us
News Source : Vulture
News Summary
- At 88, Pynchon has written his most urgent novel yet thanks to a newfound narrative grounding.
- Shadow Ticket depicts the path to Gravity's Rainbow’s phantasmagoria of World War II horrors.
- It is filled with his famously overstuffed paragraphs, often one thrumming sentence each.
- But his words go down a bit more smoothly than usual without sacrificing any of his crackle.
- The result is a PynChonian reduction simmered to delectation.
Shadow Ticket starts with a bang. The explosion when it comes seems to be from somewhere across the river and nearer the Lake, Thomas Pynchon writes. Nobody seems surprised. In language and sentiment [+9834 chars]
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