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"Shall I project a world?" * "Thomas Pynchon's second novel, The Crying of Lot 49, reads like an episode withheld from his first, the much-acclaimed V., published three years ago. Pynchon's technical virtuosity, his adaptations of the apocalyptic-satiric modes of Melville, Conrad, and Joyce, of Faulkner, Nathanael West 
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Mr. Donleavy’s first novel, which he called a celebration of “resolutely careless mayhem,” provoked controversy but came to be regarded as a classic.
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In the realm of book blurbs, "losing oneself in a story" is one of the most unavoidable clichés. See also: "gripping reads," "page-turners," a book you "can't
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From the very first sentence…we are into the realm of nightmare. Miracles gather and explode. A dead man returns—or does not return. A flying ghost, apparently, swoops down and attacks. No angels, …
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Lisa McInerney on why Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr is a great novel and the best book of 1964. 'We need reminding that we are all capable of savage compassion.’
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An amazing, powerful, gut-renching novel that will stay with you forever.
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His 1955 debut was initially banned by censors but sold more than 45 million copies.
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