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Oh happy day! In the mail:

Warlock by Oakley Hall
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges (Penguin Deluxe)

YAY! All three look fricken awesome! Had no idea Tom did the blurb on the back of Warlock.

Before the agonized epic of Warlock is over with-the rebellion of the proto-Wobblies working in the mines, the struggling for political control of the area, the gunfighting, mob violence, the personal crises of those in power-the collective awareness that is Warlock must face its own inescapable Horror: that what is called society, with its law and order, is as frail, as precarious, as flesh and can be snuffed out and assimilated back into the desert as easily as a corpse can. It is the deep sensitivity to abysses that makes “Warlock” one of our best American novels. For we are a nation that can, many of us, toss with all aplomb our candy wrapper into the Grand Canyon itself, snap a color shot and drive away; and we need voices like Oakley Hall's to remind us how far that piece of paper, still fluttering brightly behind us, has to fall.

-Thomas Pynchon, back of Warlock by Oakley Hall