PanCleveland Review of BooksI had a difficult time with this novel ... It is perhaps aesthetically disappointing that the sentences Pynchon employs in Shadow Ticket are, comparatively, devoid of a similar poetics ... The novel’s discourse shuttles our characters from setting to setting, snappy dialogue exchange to snappy dialogue exchange, with very little in the way of concrete description ... Reified representations of history have a way of simply dissolving into background lore.
