Books: Thin Reality, Thin Dream

MISS MACINTOSH, MY DARLING by Marguerite Young. 1,198 pages. Scrioner. $10.95.

The mind boggles. The disc slips. Marguerite Young's phantasmagoric novel of a dream journey across the U.S. contains 1,198 pages. Some phantasmagoric novel! Only a fictional pressagent's verbal weapons could describe it: "Marguerite Young's new novel is so big that if its air conditioning is turned off, clouds form inside. Its electrical system contains 11,425 miles of copper wire. None of it connected. The cement that went into its construction could build Grand Coulee Dam, with enough left over to fill a...

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