A kind of maximalist profusion of detail and incident characterizes ‘Shadow Ticket,’ though this new novel from Thomas Pynchon might also be categorized as zany neo-noir—or slapstick noir—for developing the noir tropes of the 1930s and 1940s in a less hardboiled, wackier direction.
Eric Vanderwall
Eric Vanderwall is a writer, editor and musician in Arizona. His work has previously appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, World Literature Today, The Minnesota Star Tribune and the Chicago Review of Books.