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The fall of the house of Pynchon

Slogging through the science and history, sex and paranoia that crowd Thomas Pynchon's cartoonish new novel, it's obvious his disciples now write better Big Idea novels than he does.
By Laura Miller

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  • Saturday, November 25, 2006 11:42 AM

    The "Times" Review

    Here is the review previously mentioned:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/books/review/Schillinger.t.html?ref=books

    Hope all can access this without a subsription.

    —Joel_Grant Read Joel_Grant's other letters

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