![]() ![]() ![]() ISBN-13: 9781594204234 Summary It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Like Pynchon's other primers on paranoia, "Bleeding Edge" could carry Milton's lines from "Paradise Lost" as an epigraph: "And in the lowest deep a lower deep / Still threat'ning to devour me opens wide. Bleeding Edge Thomas Pynchon, 2013 Penguin Group USA 496 pp. Bleeding Edge Audible Audiobook Unabridged Thomas Pynchon (Author), Jeannie Berlin (Narrator), & 1 more 568 ratings Editors pick Best Mystery, Thriller & Suspense See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the Internet. Events soon spiral out of control in Pynchonian fashion as she uncovers a (Byzantine, natch) conspiracy involving virtual reality, the Deep Web, the busted dotcom boom, shady Arabian capital outflows, the Russian mafia, government assassins and murder. Sam Sacks reviews Thomas Pynchons 'Bleeding Edge: A Novel.' Pynchons latest regurgitates 9/11 conspiracy theories without either the ingenious humor or metaphorical power of his earlier novels. Maxine, a decertified fraud investigator with two precocious kids and a sort-of-ex named Horst, is investigating a computer firm called hashslingrz, run by the villainous Gabriel Ice. We currently have eight wikis running here, covering all of Thomas Pynchons novels: Bleeding Edge (2013), Inherent Vice (2009) Against the Day (2006) Mason & Dixon (1997) Vineland (1990) Gravitys Rainbow (1973), Pynchons awe-inspiring third novel The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Pynchons second novel and V. Set in Manhattan’s Silicon Alley, it will. The series of skits and gags that passes for a plot in the new novel involves what Stanley Cavell has dubbed a comedy of remarriage, with Maxine Tarnow in the Katharine Hepburn role. Penguin recently announced that Thomas Pynchon will publish his next novel, Bleeding Edge, this fall. Complaining about looseness in a Pynchon novel is like complaining about dialect in Faulkner, but it's one thing if his screw-the-plot meanderings eventually trace the floor-plan of a cathedral like "Gravity's Rainbow," and another if he's just cadging joints on the beach with a busted guitar strung across his back. "Bleeding Edge" is Pynchon's second wink-nudge detective story in a row, its mock-Chandler shenanigans uprooted from the Los Angeles of "Inherent Vice" (2009) to settle uncomfortably in the land of "yups," Jewish moms and people who use the verb "plotz." It's also his second book in a row that seems unnecessarily slapdash. ![]()
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