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“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
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“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
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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
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“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)
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“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
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“A hilarious, shrewd,
and disquieting metaphysical mystery.”
— Booklist (starred review)
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“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)
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“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
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“Truly your most important
reading for the fall...Darkly hilarious.”
— Library Journal