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Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist based in New York City and 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...
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The Crying of Lot 49
The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) is a novel by Thomas Pynchon. The shortest of Pynchon's novels and often considered his most accessible, the book is about a woman, Oedipa Maas, possibly unearthing the centuries-old conflict between two mail distribution...
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Mason & Dixon
Mason & Dixon is a postmodernist novel by American author Thomas Pynchon published in 1997. It centers on the collaboration of the historical Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in their astronomical and surveying exploits in Cape Colony, Saint Helena,...
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- 1997
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V.
V. is the debut novel of Thomas Pynchon, published in 1963. It describes the exploits of a discharged U.S. Navy sailor named Benny Profane, his reconnection in New York with a group of pseudo-bohemian artists and hangers-on known as the Whole Sick...
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- 1963
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Gravity's Rainbow
Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern novel written by Thomas Pynchon and first published on February 28, 1973.
The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the...
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- 1973
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- 1973
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Vineland
Vineland is a 1990 novel by Thomas Pynchon, a postmodern tale of life set in the United States in 1984, the year of Ronald Reagan's re-election. Its central locale is Vineland, California, a fictional small town in California's Anderson Valley ...
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- 1990
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- 1990
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Slow Learner
Slow Learner is the 1984 published collection of six early novellas by the American novelist Thomas Pynchon.
The book is also notable for its introduction, written by Pynchon. His comments on the stories after reading them again for the first time...
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- 1984
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- 1984
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Against the Day
Against the Day is a novel by Thomas Pynchon. The narrative takes place between the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the time immediately following World War I and features more than a hundred characters spread across the United States, Europe, Mexico,...
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- Nov 21, 2006
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- Nov 21, 2006
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Gravity's Rainbow
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The Small Rain
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Low-Lands
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Entropy
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Under the Rose
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The Secret Integration
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Abstruse topics in Pynchon's Against the Day
Abstruse topics in Against the Day, a novel released in 2006 by Thomas Pynchon, are numerous.
Steven Moore, in a Washington Post book review, suggests, "A good warm-up exercise for reading this is the 'Robber Barons and Rebels' chapter in Howard...
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Inherent Vice
Inherent Vice is a novel by Thomas Pynchon, originally published in August 2009.
The term 'inherent vice' is a legal tenet referring to a "hidden defect (or the very nature) of a good or property which of itself is the cause of (or contributes to)...
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- Aug 4, 2009
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Die Enden der Parabel
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Mason and Dixon
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Un Lento Aprendizaje
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