Bleeding Edge Audiobook

Quotes

• “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 affectation for his people and places, even as he lampoons them for suffering the postmodern condition of being only partly real.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “Brilliantly written…A joy to read…Full of verbal sass and pizzazz, as well as conspiracies within conspiracies, Bleeding Edge is totally gonzo, totally wonderful. It really is good to have Thomas Pynchon around, doing what he does best.”

  — Washington Post

• “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

• “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.”

  — Scotsman (UK)

• “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

• “A hilarious, shrewd, and disquieting metaphysical mystery.”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “A much-anticipated return, and it’s trademark stuff: a blend of existential angst, goofy humor, and broad-sweeping bad vibes.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “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

• “Truly your most important reading for the fall...Darkly hilarious.”

  — Library Journal