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Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
Category: Fiction
Spanning the period between the Chicago World
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
Category: Fiction
Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, Against the Day moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tungus ...Show more
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
Category: Fiction
It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dotcom 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 money around ...Show more
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
Category: Fiction
It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dotcom 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 money around ...Show more
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
Category: Fiction
It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dotcom 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 money around ...Show more
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
Category: Fiction
It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dotcom 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 money around ...Show more
Crying of Lot 49 - A Novel by Thomas Pynchon
Category: International Fiction
"The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes."--New York Times Thomas Pynchon's highly original, postmodernist classic, a satire of American life about a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a seeming international conspiracy. When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, ...Show more
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon; Frank Miller (Illustrator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then, as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sibilant opening sentence, 'a screaming comes across the sky', heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. Soon Tyrone is on the r ...Show more
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Category: Fiction
"The greatest, wildest author of his generation Guardianb>e could tell you the year is 1944, that the main character is called Tyrone Slothrop and that he has a problem because bombs are falling across Europe and crashing to earth at the exact locations of his sexual conquests. But that doesn t reall ...Show more
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Category: Classic Fiction
Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then, "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. Soon Tyrone is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagori ...Show more
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon - private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era as free love slips away and paranoia creeps in with the L.A. fog.
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
Category: Fiction
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 illustration of th ...Show more