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Lineland: Mortality and Mercy on the Internet's Pynchon-L@Waste.Org Discussion List
Lineland Mortality and Mercy on the Internet's PynchonLWasteOrg Discussion List Author:Jules Siegel, Christine Wexler A 20th Century literary romance. — They were an explosive combination! — The time: The late Sixties — The setting: The beaches and redwoods of California, the streets and hippie hangouts of Greenwich Village and Sunset Strip, the superstar mansions of Beverly Hills. — The characters: — Thomas Pynchon--world famous novelist. High-born, camera-shy and ... more »reclusive, he was writing his next literary masterpiece. Why did he act like a man on the run?
Chrissie Jolly--18 year old artist/model. Full of surprises that did not go with a Pepsodent smile, she danced like The White Goddess in hot flesh and teen underwear.
Jules Siegel--street-smart journalist. Covering the rock scene and youth underground for Playboy and Rolling Stone, he could have been a character in The Godfather... and probably was.
She could only marry one of them, but no one would stop her from loving them both!
Thirty years later, it all explodes on the Internet, as two characters talk about an author, and the result is a new kind of book that's changing the way people think about literature.
Is it a true-life novel? Personal journalism? An uncanny hoax? Whatever you decide, Lineland will make you laugh and make you cry... and you won't put it down until the last page, the last teardrop and the last laugh!« less