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Gravity’s Rainbow Thomas Pynchon Essay by Dan Geddes 7 July 2006 Contents Introduction Part 1 – Beyond the Zero Part 2 – Un Perm’ au Casino Hermann Goering Part 3. In the Zone Part 4 – The Counterforce Anarchy Over Monopoly Conclusion Further reading... More »
An Accidental Family – Fyodor Dostoevsky Review By Dan Geddes 10 October 2004 Dostoevsky’s An Accidental Family is probably the least known of his long novels. It is a first-person narrative, presented as the private “notes” of a twenty-year old ba... More »
Review by Dan Geddes Vineland (1990) Thomas Pynchon See also: The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity’s Rainbow, Inherent Vice, Bleeding Edge and Dys, an imaginary Pynchon novel Contents Infiltrating the Resistance Movement The Repression: America as Garrison Stat... More »
Review By Dan Geddes See also: Gravity’s Rainbow, Vineland, Inherent Vice, Bleeding Edge and Dys, an imaginary Pynchon novel ___________________ The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon’s second novel, pursues many of the same themes Pynchon explored in hi... More »
See also: A Son of the Circus, A Widow for One Year The Fourth Hand and an imaginary review of Irving’s The Third Leg. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving Review By Dan Geddes John Irving’s A Prayer For Owen Meany is yet another Irving book that abs... More »
Henry Miller Review By Dan Geddes See also review of Miller’s The Rosy Crucifixion Henry Miller is famous for leaving New York for Paris in 1930, and writing sexually-explicitly literary novels that were banned in the United States for over thirty years.... More »
The Corrections Jonathan Franzen Review by Dan Geddes See also review of Franzen’s Freedom The Corrections admirably portrays the values of both contemporary American yuppies and their square parents. While the three main characters are well-spoken East ... More »
Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson Review By Dan Geddes Winesburg’s Reception I can understand why Winesburg, Ohio was shocking for its time: the veneer of Victorian innocence in small town American life is pierced, revealing tormented psyches even among ... More »
See also: A Prayer for Owen Meany, A Son of the Circus, A Widow for One Year an imaginary review of Irving’s The Third Leg The Fourth Hand By John Irving Review by Dan Geddes The Fourth Hand must have been a fun book to write. John Irving’s novel is fi... More »
Outer Dark Cormac McCarty Review By Dan Geddes Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark draws from the long tradition of existentialist literature from Eccliesiastes to King Lear to The Stranger.[1] It creates a world devoid of God, purpose, causality; a world where man... More »
Review by Dan Geddes See also: A Prayer for Owen Meany, A Son of the Circus, The Fourth Hand and an imaginary review of Irving’s The Third Leg A Widow For One Year by John Irving John Irving’s A Widow for One Year chronicles the history of the Cole... More »
The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka Review By Dan Geddes For the would-be writer, the chief lesson of Kafka’s Metamorphosis is the effectiveness of fairy tale surrealism. Rather than submerge us in cries of despair, or the new Freudian psychology, Kafka expres... More »