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Thomas Pynchon
We 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…
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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…
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…
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…
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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…
George Orwell
Hidden away in the Record Department of the Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian…
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Ever since its publication in 1949, George Orwell’s terrifying vision of a totalitarian regime where Big Brother controls its citizens like ‘a boot stamping on a human face’ has become…
Tony Tanner
Tony Tanner provides a brief, comprehensive introduction to the work of Thomas Pynchon. Against the background of Pynchon the man, this book, originally published in 1982, examines in detail his…
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Offers a brief biography of Thomas Pynchon and discusses the plots, characters, and themes of The Crying of Lot 49, V, Gravity’s Rainbow, and Mason & Dixon..
Simon Malpas,Andrew Taylor
A comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature, Thomas Pynchon – .
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This book guides readers through the global scope and prolific imagination of Pynchon’s canonical work, providing the most up-to-date and authoritative scholarly analyses of his writing. It will be of…
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality…
Pynchon’s highly original take on the apocalypse (southern California-style) is both a critical and popular triumph, now printed with an updated author biography and history of the book’s publication.
Maxine Tarnow is running a nice little fraud investigation business on the Upper West Side, chasing down different kinds of small-scale con artists. She used to be legally certified but…
Originally published: Philadelphia, Pa.: J.B. Lippincott, 1965.
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.
New York City, 2001. Fraud investigator Maxine Tarnow starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO and discovers there’s no shortage of swindlers looking…
A compilation of five short stories which include: The Small Rain , Lowlands , Entropy , Under the Rose , and The Secret Integration .
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…
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…
Spanning the period between the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the century…
Part noir, part psychedelic romp, and all Pynchon, Inherent Vice spotlights private eye Doc Sportello who occasionally comes out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era…
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…
Albert Rolls
This is a significant new and accessible work on the leading modern American novelist whose works - notably Gravity’s Rainbow, which won the 1974 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction…
Joanna Freer (University of Sussex)
Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture examines Pynchon’s novels in their relation to 1960s counterculture. Much has been made of Pynchon’s ambiguity, but in this volume, Joanna Freer offers a concrete…
Comprehensive, accessible and up-to-date, this book approaches the challenging fiction of the American postmodern master Thomas Pynchon from many different angles. Designed for students, scholars and fans alike, it covers…
As the first book-length investigation of Thomas Pynchon’s writing to put the topics of sex and gender at its core, this book moves beyond binary debates about whether to see…
Originally published: [Boston, Mass.]: Little, Brown, 1990.
Rachid Neji
In The Crying of Lot49 and Gravity’s Rainbow, the concept of absurdity reigns from the beginning until the end. Indeed, there are characters who strive to abate the amount of…
Evans Lansing Smith
Illustrates that the descent to the underworld is the single most important myth in Pynchon’s work, conferring shape and significance upon each of his novels. This book offers a perspective…
David Cowart
Cowart argues that Pynchon has always understood the facticity of historical narrative and the historicity of storytelling–not to mention the relations of both story and history to myth. He offers…
Molly Hite (Cornell University)
Somewhere near the beginning of this incisive critical study of perhaps the most elusive and, to some minds, structurally disordered of living writers, Molly Hite notes that the idea of…
Daniel Deleanu
A metatextual look at the metafictional universe of one of the greatest American writers of all time.
Dr Simon de Bourcier
Is time an illusion? Do past, present, and future co-exist in a timeless whole, or are our experiences of change and duration the reality of time? This title draws on…
