Bleeding Edge (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781594204234)

"Brilliantly written...a joy to read...Bleeding Edge is totally gonzo, totally wonderful. It really is good to have Thomas Pynchon around, doing what he does best." - Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

"Exemplary...dazzling and ludicrous." - Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times Book Review

It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th.

Maxine Tarnow runs a fine little fraud investigation business on the Upper West Side. All is ticking over nice and normal, until she starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO. She soon finds herself mixed up with a drug runner in an art deco motorboat, a professional nose obsessed with Hitler's aftershave, a neoliberal enforcer with footwear issues, and an array of bloggers, hackers, code monkeys, and entrepreneurs, some of whom begin to show up mysteriously dead. Foul play, of course.

Will perpetrators be revealed, forget about brought to justice? Will Maxine have to take the handgun out of her purse? Will Jerry Seinfeld make an unscheduled guest appearance? Will accounts secular and karmic be brought into balance?

Hey. Who wants to know?

Author: Thomas Pynchon
ISBN-10: 1594204233
ISBN-13: 9781594204234
Publisher: Penguin Press
Language: English
Published: 09/17/2013
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.72lbs
Size: 9.52h x 6.37w x 1.53d
Award: National Book Awards - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/19/2013
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2013 pg. 5
Library Journal 09/01/2013 pg. 103
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2013 pg. 21
New York Times Book Review 09/15/2013 pg. 1
Entertainment Weekly 09/20/2013 pg. 155
Booklist 09/15/2013 pg. 33
New Yorker (The) 09/23/2013 pg. 115
New York Times Book Review 09/22/3013 pg. 30
Shelf Awareness 09/27/2013
New York Review of Books 11/07/2013 pg. 68
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/04/2013 pg. 24
Kirkus Best Fiction 11/15/2013 pg. 32
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/08/2013 pg. 26
Entertainment Weekly 12/13/2013 pg. 58
Entertainment Weekly 12/27/2013 pg. 94
Books & Culture 01/01/2014 pg. 19
LJ Top 10 Book 12/01/2013 pg. 27