FREE/BARGAIN — Fiction (everything else)

[Dr. Drib]

^^^^

OK, it downloaded with the new cover, but with the words "20th Anniversary Edition" on the cover. (!!??) It has the Foreward by Tom Bissell. Eggers is gone. Following the Bissell Foreward, the novel begins.

Since I haven't read it in 30 years, perhaps this is the time to do a re-read.

ADDED: A number of words are joined together: Agealongside, novelis perisableonly, novelsurvives, aspraise, successfulmerely, predictiveor containsscenarios.

All this in THE FIRST PARAGRAPH!!! of the Foreward.

Too, there are occasions in that first paragraph where there is no space after the punctuation. I even changed the font and there was no difference.

Screw this nonsense. Thank god I downloaded my copy when I bought it all those years ago and preserved it in calibre.

DOUBLE ADDED: A quick glance through a few pages of the actual novel does not show what I documented in the Foreward.

[BionicGecko]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

OK, it downloaded with the new cover, but with the words "20th Anniversary Edition" on the cover. (!!??) It has the Foreward by Tom Bissell. Eggers is gone.

It looks like the 20th anniversary edition indeed does contain the foreword by Tom Bissell, so it seems your cover at least matches your content. Your guess is as good as mine as to why you got “upgraded” to the 20th anniversary edition and not the 30th though!

I filled a problem report with Amazon, hopefully they will fix the issue with the “supposed” 30th anniversary edition, but I’m not keeping my hopes up.