| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0099512335 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-099-51233-2 |
| No of pages | 1220 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | vintage |
| Published Date | 01 Nov 2007 |
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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0099512335 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-099-51233-2 |
| No of pages | 1220 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | vintage |
| Published Date | 01 Nov 2007 |
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. is an American writer based in New York City, noted for his dense and complex works of fiction.
Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon spent two years in the United States Navy and earned an English degree from Cornell University.
After publishing several short stories in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he began composing the novels for which he is best known today: V.
(1963), The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Gravity's Rainbow (1973), Vineland (1990), Mason & Dixon (1997), and Against the Day (2006).
Pynchon is regarded by many readers and critics as one of the finest contemporary authors. He is a MacArthur Fellow and a recipient of the National Book Award, and is regularly cited as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Both his fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, styles, and themes, including (but not limited to) the fields of history, science and mathematics.
Pynchon is also known for his avoidance of personal publicity: very few photographs of him have ever been published, and rumors about his location and identity have been circulated since the 1960's.
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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 labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York; from London to Venice, to Siberia, to Mexico during the revolution; silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all. It is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. Maybe it's not the world, but with a minor adjustment or two it's what the world might be.