New York: Penguin Books, 2007. — 1104 p. — ISBN10: 0143112562; ISBN13: 978-0143112563. The inimitable Thomas Pynchon has done it again. Hailed as "a major work of art" by The Wall Street Journal, his first novel in almost ten years spans the era between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I and moves among locations across the globe (and to a few...
New York: Penguin Press, 2013. — 477 p — ISBN10: 1594204233; ISBN13: 978-1594204234. It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as much...
Gravity's Rainbow is a 1973 novel by American writer Thomas Pynchon.
A lengthy, complex novel featuring a large cast of characters, the narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German military, and, in particular, the quest undertaken by several characters to uncover the secret of a...
New York: Penguin Books, 2010. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 0143117564; ISBN13: 978-0143117568. Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon--Private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era. In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre that is at once exciting and accessible, provides a classic...
New York: Little Brown, 1984. — 193 p. — ISBN10: 0316724424; ISBN13: 978-0316724425. Thomas Pynchon's literary career was launched not with the release of his widely acclaimed first novel, "V., " but with the publication in literary magazines of the five stories collected here. In his introduction to "Slow Learner" the author reviews his early work with disarming candor and...
New York: Harper Perennial, 2006. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 006091307X; ISBN13: 978-0060913076. The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge.
New York: Aloes Books, 1978. — 70 p. — ISBN10: 0856520349; ISBN13: 978-0856520341. "Low-Lands", written while the Pynchon was an undergraduate at Cornell University and first published in "New World Writing" 16 (1960), is an explicit parody of T S Eliot's "The Waste Land". But further, "Low-Lands" evinces another influence: the writings of Cervantes, in particular "Don Quixote...
New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999. — 560 p. — ISBN10: 0060930217; ISBN13: 978-0060930219. V. is the debut novel of Thomas Pynchon, published in 1963. It describes the exploits of a discharged U.S. Navy sailor named Benny Profane, his reconnection in New York with a group of pseudo-bohemian artists and hangers-on known as the Whole Sick Crew, and the quest of an...
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