![]() ![]() It is an astonishing achievement." - Mark Sanderson, Daily Telegraph (.) Anyone who finished Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon or Lawrence Norfolk's Lempriere's Dictionary will enjoy Quicksilver. "Stephenson's mission to explain is balanced by a desire to entertain: there is more sex and violence on display here than in any Tarantino movie.It was no doubt hell to edit (if indeed it was)." - Lucy Sussex, The Age ![]() Perhaps the most relevant comparison is with Dumas's famous riposte: "True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring." Quicksilver teeters on the brink of being too big, too audacious.
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