Shadow Ticket Author : Thomas Pynchon ISBN-13 : 978-1787336339 Publisher : Jonathan Cape Guideline Price : £22
Old Tommy “The Recluse” Pynchon hangs out somewhere maybe New York maybe not, pops up now and then in shady rumour attending a baseball game, did a comic turn on a popular TV show with a bag over his cartoon head, writes novels that are apt to resemble obscene doodles on men’s room walls drawn by paranoid psychotics, calls his characters stuff like Benny Profane or Zoyd Wheeler or Boynt Crosstown, makes lame jokes like “Check’s in the mayo” or having a Depression-era gangster drive a car called an REO Speedwagon, likes to spin a shaggy-dog plot that goes nowhere, really likes scenes in which people drive speedboats, guy’s only weakness the unavoidable fact that
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