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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Thomas Pynchon
Pynchon’s V . won the coveted William Faulkner Foundation’s First Novel Award when it appeared in 1963, and was hailed by Atlantic Review as one of the best works of…
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It’s been a while since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-girlfriend. Suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer…
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A compilation of five short stories which include: The Small Rain , Lowlands , Entropy , Under the Rose , and The Secret Integration .
This is the first novel by the author of GRAVITY’S RAINBOW, and a profoundly impressive and original work in its own right. The search for the mysterious V ranges from…
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 labour troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century…
Charles Mason (1728 -1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British Surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line.
Gravity’s Rainbow is never a single story, but a proliferation of characters - Pirate Prentice, Teddy Bloat, Tantivy Mucker-Maffick, Saure Bummer, and more - and events that tantalize the reader…
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Oedipa Maas, recent heiress, enquires into the nature of her inheritance- trying to understand her own life and the motivation of her dead lover, she is led on am ambiguous…
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Vineland is vintage Pynchon, full of quasi-allegorical characters, elaborate unresolved subplots, corny songs ( Floozy with an Uzi ), movie spoofs (Pee-wee Herman in The Robert Musil Story), and illicit…
