Pynchon S Against The Day

Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1584 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101594667

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Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year Spanning the era between the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all), Against the Day unfolds with a phantasmagoria of characters that includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, drug enthusiasts, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, spies, and hired guns. As an era of uncertainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it’s their lives that pursue them.

Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Random House
Page : 1236 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780099512332

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Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon Pdf

Thomas Pynchon is up to his usual business. Characters stop what they're doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. Contrary-to-fact occurrences occur. Maybe it's not the world, but with a minor adjustment or two it's what the world might be.

Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1085 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : 0224080954

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Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon Pdf

Meanwhile, Thomas Pynchon is up to his usual business. Characters stop what they're doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. Contrary-to-fact occurrences occur. Maybe it's not the world, but with a minor adjustment or two it's what the world might be

Author : Jeffrey Severs,Christopher Leise
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1611490650

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Pynchon's Against the Day by Jeffrey Severs,Christopher Leise Pdf

The first book of criticism devoted to Pynschon's massive 2006 novel, Pynchon's Against the Day: A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide gathers new work by more than a dozen scholars, offering readings informed by the newest developments in narratology, genre studies, ecocriticism, globalism, and the histories of science and religion. This title also offers fresh perspectives on divisive issues within Pynchon studies, such as anarchism, gender, and reviewers' reception of his recent work. What emerges is a novel that will come to be seen, these essays argue, as a major part of Pynchon's storied legacy and a key work of the "late Pynchon."

Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101594674

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Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon Pdf

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 the principle that if you can remember the sixties, you weren't there. It's been a while since Doc Sportello has seen his ex- girlfriend. Suddenly she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. It's the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in L.A., and Doc knows that "love" is another of those words going around at the moment, like "trip" or "groovy," except that this one usually leads to trouble. Undeniably one of the most influential writers at work today, Pynchon has penned another unforgettable book.

Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101594650

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Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon Pdf

Winner of the 1974 National Book Award “A screaming comes across the sky. . .” A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on London, British Intelligence discovers that a map of the city pinpointing the sexual conquests of one Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, U.S. Army, corresponds identically to a map showing the V-2 impact sites. The implications of this discovery will launch Slothrop on an amazing journey across war-torn Europe, fleeing an international cabal of military-industrial superpowers, in search of the mysterious Rocket 00000, through a wildly comic extravaganza that has been hailed in The New Republic as “the most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II.”

Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101594612

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Slow Learner by Thomas Pynchon Pdf

Compiling five short stories originally written between 1959 and 1964, Slow Learner showcases Thomas Pynchon’s writing before the publication of his first novel V. The stories compiled here are “The Small Rain,” “Low-lands,” “Entropy,” “Under the Rose,” and “The Secret Integration,” along with an introduction by Pynchon himself.

Author : Wanda Tinasky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Letters to the editor
ISBN : IND:30000052990375

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The Letters of Wanda Tinasky by Wanda Tinasky Pdf

Author : Claudia Mills
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375899607

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Mason Dixon: Basketball Disasters by Claudia Mills Pdf

Here's the third entry in Claudia Mills' charming middle-grade series. Mason Dixon survived the school choir. He survived adopting his now-beloved dog named, uh, Dog. But now he faces his biggest challenge yet: joining the local basketball team. Not by choice, of course. Not only do his parents encourage it, but his dad even volunteers to be his coach. Now, with his best pal Brody and a team of misfits even worse at basketball than him (if that's possible), Mason must try to rally to beat his arch-rival, the school bully Dunk. Just another day-in-the-life of a disaster-prone fourth grader.

Author : Joanna Freer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781108474467

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The New Pynchon Studies by Joanna Freer Pdf

The essays in this collection are at the forefront of Pynchon studies, representing distinctively twenty-first century approaches to his work.

Author : Joseph McElroy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0979312396

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Women and Men by Joseph McElroy Pdf

Beginning in childbirth and entered like a multiple dwelling in motion, Women and Men embraces and anatomizes the 1970s in New York - from experiments in the chaotic relations between the sexes to the flux of the city itself. Yet through an intricate overlay of scenes, voices, fact, and myth, this expanding fiction finds its way also across continents and into earlier and future times and indeed the Earth, to reveal connections between the most disparate lives and systems of feeling and power. At its breathing heart, it plots the fuguelike and fieldlike densities of late-twentieth-century life. McElroy rests a global vision on two people, apartment-house neighbors who never quite meet. Except, that is, in the population of others whose histories cross theirs believers and skeptics; lovers, friends, and hermits; children, parents, grandparents, avatars, and, apparently, angels. For Women and Men shows how the families through which we pass let one person's experience belong to that of many, so that we throw light on each other as if these kinships were refracted lives so real as to be reincarnate. A mirror of manners, the book is also a meditation on the languages, rich, ludicrous, exact, and also American, in which we try to grasp the world we're in. Along the kindred axes of separation and intimacy Women and Men extends the great line of twentieth-century innovative fiction.

Author : Zak Smith
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780977312795

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Pictures Showing what Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow by Zak Smith Pdf

Gravity's Rainbow Illustrated: One Picture for Every Page features the work of an Ivy League-educated, punk-rock, porn-star visual artist who has created a drawing for every page of a novel that is widely considered to be the most difficult work of literature ever produced in English.

Author : Steven C. Weisenburger
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820337647

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A Gravity's Rainbow Companion by Steven C. Weisenburger Pdf

Adding some 20 percent to the original content, this is a completely updated edition of Steven Weisenburger's indispensable guide to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Weisenburger takes the reader page by page, often line by line, through the welter of historical references, scientific data, cultural fragments, anthropological research, jokes, and puns around which Pynchon wove his story. Weisenburger fully annotates Pynchon's use of languages ranging from Russian and Hebrew to such subdialects of English as 1940s street talk, drug lingo, and military slang as well as the more obscure terminology of black magic, Rosicrucianism, and Pavlovian psychology. The Companion also reveals the underlying organization of Gravity's Rainbow--how the book's myriad references form patterns of meaning and structure that have eluded both admirers and critics of the novel. The Companion is keyed to the pages of the principal American editions of Gravity's Rainbow: Viking/Penguin (1973), Bantam (1974), and the special, repaginated Penguin paperback (2000) honoring the novel as one of twenty "Great Books of the Twentieth Century."

Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101594636

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Vineland by Thomas Pynchon Pdf

“Later than usual one summer morning in 1984 . . .” On California’s fog-hung North Coast, the enchanted redwood groves of Vineland County harbor a wild assortment of sixties survivors and refugees from the “Nixonian Reaction,” still struggling with the consequences of their past lives. Aging hippie freak Zoyd Wheeler is revving up for his annual act of televised insanity when news reaches that his old nemesis, sinister federal agent Brock Vond, has come storming into Vineland at the head of a heavily armed Justice Department strike force. Zoyd instantly disappears underground, but not before dispatching his teenage daughter Prairie on a dark odyssey into her secret, unspeakable past. . . . Freely combining disparate elements from American popular culture—spy thrillers, ninja potboilers, TV soap operas, sci-fi fantasies—Vineland emerges as what Salman Rushdie has called in The New York Times Book Review “that rarest of birds: a major political novel about what America has been doing to itself, to its children, all these many years.”

Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101594605

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The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon Pdf

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.